i was misdiagnosed with ADHD as a child and my parents dumped that doctor immediately lol

"this kid has ADHD"
"ITS CALLED BEING A KID YOU IDIOT"

yeah i was a wild child

mellowed down a lot as i aged

I too was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid.

But then I stopped taking medicine and got normal.

i love how they are like "what do you mean a kid cannot sit rock solid still in an uncomfortable plastic chair for like 8 hours straight? must be ADHD"

yeah really i randomly stood up in class a lot in gradeschool and just kinda

yeah really i randomly stood up in class a lot in gradeschool and just kinda

"We took away kids ability to go have time on the playground and now they are stir crazy? must be ADHD"

yeah i got up and paced around near my seat a lot in gradeschool

yay network issues

network issues are the most fun issues

always fun to play a game of "will my message send?"

(the answer was no)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkEf_qD8ajY

"When I meet someone who is anti-gun, I stab them."

sounds like the appropriate response

I ponder whether my pacing is more a result of adhd or anxiety

https://i.imgur.com/6rZ8g8R.jpg

key word here being more

I prefer to think of my pacing as "Active body, active mind" style brainstorming

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/337276032971440139/469703022277165056/TrashTalk.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayd4sxW_RUA

Because I'm loaded with my Tuscandero Ticondas

And I don't wanna shoot my Ticondas

**Forgotten Weapons** Uploaded a new youtube video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrKhJC35QRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1010NIG8Pfc

Pretty

I have to ask. I've always wanted to know why the fire arm community has a style of dress that's akin to special forces operators - or is it the other way around? American flag baseball cap, cammo/black gloves, high speed sunglasses, you get the idea.

They are hunters and wannabe hunters

Also, it's called tacticool

Cool operator factor + just sheer convenience of milspec pockets

Military stuff is comfy, infinitely adjustible, and lasts forever (unless made out of chineesium)

Ha! I beg to differ. I've spent several years in combat arms and that shit is way uncomfortable.

But it is durable, I'll give you that.

I get ya. Standard issue stuff often sucks. Pardon my confusing statement.

its 70% tacticool factor

Mostly the uniform. It

What I meant is an aftermarket mil stuff

It's the only job I had where I would wear a t-shirt, jacket, long pants and boots in 100 degree weather. haha

I kinda cringe at tacticool, but had I the freedom to gun I'd probably buy tacticool stuff too

hypocritical, maybe. But I'll own it

hey, we all make fun of rednecks and their toys.... but they do have some of the best toys

But to my question, I really wonder which came first. Did SF operator fashion culture influence the civilian sport shooting culture or the other way around. Maybe we will never know, but I always think of weird shit like that.

i technically answered that

hunters came first

Makes sense I suppose

I'll browse the current Bow Hunting magazines at my local barber shop and every person looks like they are ready to raid a building.

Commando gear came from the competition shooting groups in USA, then it got fashionable and came back into the sports

It's a back-and-forth that I'd guess has no particular definitive starting point

Competitions influence army gear, and army gear influences sports shooting

Yea, makes sense. It's trivial but I've always wondered that.

Oh I left out the hunters

They are in that cycle too. It is a triangle

Snipers of WW2 from USA were "competition hunters" that shot animals at great distances

Before them the concept of sniping as such was not that established in the firearm warfare

And fun fact: sniping comes from trying to hunt snipes (a type of bird, that is small and is a very agile flier that can change directions rapidly) from around 1770

It was an endeering term for an especially capable sharpshooter later on, and then became a term for a long-distance precision marksman (before that it pretty much meant a short range quick-draw skill)

i mean tbh its still used in that old way nowadays too in vidya games

ie "nice snipe" when u land a skillshot or just kill someone

I think I saw the snipe origin on a History channel show once.

Technically the official term is a "precision long range marksman" for the scoped warriors

So technically you can still call the quick-draw hard precision shots "snipes"

If anything particularly challenging skeet shooting competitions desreve the term "sniping" the most if we'd be the etymological nazis

But I digress, I don't particularly care how people prefer to utilise language

XD Etymological Nasis the best kind of nazis

I do appreciate people that know why "defence" has a "c" in it

But then again etymology is akin to a short-term cultural memory. People forget the derivative connotation in like two generations and treat a word as a standalone

>But I digress, I don't particularly care how people prefer to utilize language
You should.

finally getting to watchign that ken burns vietnam doc lol heard alot about how some rightys were butthurt about how much of a liberal bias it has lol

i shall report my results back

For the record, when I said hunters, I meant it much more broadly. I would count a soldier as a hunter. One of humans but a hunter none the less. So the gear came from the people who designed it to fit their need, then the wannabe hunters come and use it because it looks cool. "Look at me, I can totally do all the things these other people do!"

I am curious about the use of language, but I don't want to dicktate people how to use it

As for the left wordbending: they have nothing to offer when it comes to the official language

Official language exists for a reason and is backed with actual power and money, because people need to make deals that have no room for cheeky business and wordplay

Hence I am not too worried about it

the problem with language is that it is always changing

strictly enforcing rules kills it and prevents it from growing to describe new ideas or connections we have made

its why we made language, or one of the reasons, to take these thoughts and convey them to other people

and we have found many ways to do so

but you also cannot just make up your own stuff, at least not without explaining it.

because then people will not understand you

and you will be isolated

Languages do evolve, thus we need language reforms now and then

But we also need the "standard" language to conduct business without misunderstanding

reporting back.... yeah its not that lefty, lol was jsut conservatives that ken burns is a left himself XD

the vietnam war

Language needs to evolve for utility. When you reduce utility (figuratively using literally) you are not growing the language

You are actually making it harder to communicate certain ideas

languages simultaneously increase and decrease in simplicity in different areas

Sure, but you need to be cognizant of where that's happening and why, or you might find your future a little doubleplus ungood comrade

languages have generally evolved very organically, if something would ruin the language it simply won't catch on

unless you force it

Have is not an assurance of will

although sometimes you do end up with tibetan, and nobody ever wants their language to turn into tibetan

given the amount of time languages have been evolving, i can confidently say we will not fuck up any language unless we start manually fucking with it

Right, and that's the danger I'm rather specifically referring to

so, manually fucking with language??

Do you remember the "old" definition of racism?