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The Reaper
08-01-2011, 19:08
Nuff said.
TR
A statement perhaps? :D
Reminds me of a quote from one of my Soldiers:
"Just because I'm friends with you on facebook, doesn't mean I like you in real life!"
Originally posted by The Reaper:
Nuff said.
TR
TR,
To be honest, I have seen just as many poser/bullshit artists in person than I have seen on line. Maybe it is because I do not spend that much time online looking for them, I don't know.
But I see them all the time in real life. Guys that do not remember their Ranger class number, did their BUDS training in Panama / were on Seal Team 13, or cannot remember the number of a single ODA that they were ever on.
Hell, two weeks ago I took the North Carolina Firearm Safety Course in order to get my CW permit and had to face the dreaded 3, 5, and 7 meter stationary targets. I was the first to arrive at the site that morning with another guy pulling in behind me. The second guy and I sat on the tail gate of his pick-up eating Bojangles and talking about the weather and fishing.
A third guy drives up, pulls his LCE out of the trunk with a holstered 1911, two knives, a field dressing, strobe light and two canteens hanging off of it. He puts on the LCE and walks over to us. Within seconds he is reading his 201 file to us about how he was SOG, Recon, Special Forces in Vietnam. Then without prompting he tells us about how he then got out of Special Forces and went into the Marine Corps., became an officer and pilot, blah, blah, blah. Not the usual career track for someone formerly in SF but I gave him the benefit of the doubt.
I really just wanted to get away from him, get done with the class and go home, but this guy was relentless and followed me and guy #2 all over the shop. I finally got tired of it and dropped my coin on the gun counter. He recognized it as a "challenge coin" and said that they were not around when he was in the military. After looking at it he asked me what kind of coin it was. I told him that it was a 7th SFG coin like it says on the coin and my 10th SFG coin was in my wallet. He asked to see that one. I pulled it out for him to see and he again said that challenge coins did not exist when he was active and walked away never to bother me for the rest of the day.
Guy #2 asked me what that was all about and I explained it to him. He then came to the conclusion that the other guy was a bullshit artist. I was pretty sure that he was a poser for the following reasons:
1. Until everyone and their grandmother started using coins I had never heard of one being called a challenge coin.
2. Even though I was never old enough to have been involved in Vietnam, I am pretty damned sure that Group coins were around then.
3. He wanted nothing to do with me after I dropped the coin on him.
This is becomming a more common occurance , everyday. It is just that most are either too smart to post their bullshit on the internet or they do not yet know how to use a computer.
The only reason that I did not force the issue with this clown was because he seemed to be really good friends with the guy giving the class and I wanted to get that certificate of completion first. I will put in the paperwork this week and then visit the gun shop again and ask the owner how well he knows this ass and then push the poser issue.
Tress
Ambush Master
08-01-2011, 22:08
Hell.................invite him into here!!!.....................Can we say "AMBUSH"!!!!
Later
Martin
Originally posted by Ambush Master:
Hell.................invite him into here!!!.....................Can we say "AMBUSH"!!!!
I want to get a little more info on him if possible and maybe have CSB run his name through those databases that he has access to. Between you and me, CSB is scary with that shit. :eek:
I am a patient person and if he is a poser, we will get our pound of flesh.
By the way, for all of this guy's alleged experience, he shot like a little girl. :D
Even the two young, active duty marines that he chatted up after me were not too sure about this guy. :confused:
Tress
I accidentally bumped into one of your posers last year, he had to informed me that he was former SPECIAL FORCES, a trained killer who could 'break me in half' before I could blink my eyes. No shit! I weigh a $1.50 and your like 325! That's like a sledge hammer on a popcicle stick. My name is Paslode it is nice to meet you and I shook his hand. then he waffled on ODA...Hey do know these guys online at PS.com.....uh what....I'll be right back.
Bye bye loser.
Posers can be found in all sorts of places, so I would consider that sound advice for many areas or professions.
Posers can be found in all sorts of places, so I would consider that sound advice for many areas or professions.
Indeed...
I haven't seen too many people at all the last few years, but as Paslode says, won't take too much to break me in half either. Have to watch out for the damn wind gusts too :D
In the past when someone I did not know offered such details without being asked, I pretty much wrote them off as bs and unbalanced right then and there. As it is a sure sign of self worth/esteem issues.
Sounds like its gettin' worse...
BigJimCalhoun
08-02-2011, 06:21
My place of employ recently changed its employee handbook as it relates to social media. I don't have the exact wording but it is something to the effect of, "you can be friends with us on Facebook, but we can still fire you for any reason and being friends means nothing."
I used to weed out guys who claimed to have ridden bulls by asking them what plait rope they used.
You could prolly do the same thing with a questionable SF guy by asking him something like "What month did you go through Desert Phase during the Q Course?"
I had a Toyota salesman in Wilmington, NC tell me he was a "Boom-Boom" on an A team, and had to carry 50 pounds of C-4 everywhere he went. :D
I think TRs poster is making a reference to remind SF soldiers about their SA when using social network media - one never knows for sure who's really on the other end of that conversation and where it will end up so be careful with internet conversations and information being posted.
A timely reminder.
Richard :munchin
ObliqueApproach
08-02-2011, 07:41
Indeed...
I haven't seen too many people at all the last few years, but as Paslode says, won't take too much to break me in half either. Have to watch out for the damn wind gusts too :D
In the past when someone I did not know offered such details without being asked, I pretty much wrote them off as bs and unbalanced right then and there. As it is a sure sign of self worth/esteem issues.
Sounds like its gettin' worse...
Remember, God created man, Sam Colt made them equal. Nuff said.
Boomer-61
08-02-2011, 12:06
A few months back when I was leaving work I noticed a reasonably well dressed male standing on the corner in the rain where the parking lot exits onto the highway. I stopped, we had a very short conversation and I offered him a lift. As we drove, this app. late 50's male, began to unfold this yarn about how he had just been discharged from active duty with the Special Forces and all the places he'd been from Vietnam to Bad Tolz, Germany. As he continued to speak my "weirdo/BS" inner alarm began to sound loud and clear and all I could think about was getting this guy out of my car as fast as possible. I dropped him, at his request, at the local Target store. As I was driving away I was thinking that I can't confirm or deny a thing this guy said. I've never been to Vietnam and all I remembered about Bad Tolz was that the barracks floor was spit shinned with boot polish. I have the utmost respect for the SF soldier and I want to afford that respect where it's due. In your collective opinions, what is the best way to manage this situation?
A few months back when I was leaving work I noticed a reasonably well dressed male standing on the corner in the rain where the parking lot exits onto the highway. I stopped, we had a very short conversation and I offered him a lift. As we drove, this app. late 50's male, began to unfold this yarn about how he had just been discharged from active duty with the Special Forces and all the places he'd been from Vietnam to Bad Tolz, Germany. As he continued to speak my "weirdo/BS" inner alarm began to sound loud and clear and all I could think about was getting this guy out of my car as fast as possible. I dropped him, at his request, at the local Target store. As I was driving away I was thinking that I can't confirm or deny a thing this guy said. I've never been to Vietnam and all I remembered about Bad Tolz was that the barracks floor was spit shinned with boot polish. I have the utmost respect for the SF soldier and I want to afford that respect where it's due. In your collective opinions, what is the best way to manage this situation?
How was the BJ?
PedOncoDoc
08-02-2011, 13:43
How was the BJ?
And there goes another keyboard.
Boomer61 - now you know how Sinjefe would manage the situation - but I assume this wasn't what you had in mind. :D
I think there are better threads for that question in places other than in the comedy zone.
LibraryLady
08-02-2011, 14:03
Nuff said.
TR
I'm very wary of guys who I meet online and want to become 'friends' IRL. Especially if they make any claims to military stuff and think they want to sail to Cuba. :D
LL
Boomer-61
08-02-2011, 17:33
Hope I never see sinjefe waiting in the rain. It is the comedy zone, I should have expected that.
You're right Doc, sorry about that.
Remember, God created man, Sam Colt made them equal. Nuff said.
Amen to Mr. Colt and Mr. Browning...