What's the story with Boards.ie and Airsoft?

Fittle

What's this all about? I've noticed that most times I go to the homepage here, there's almost always a thread on 'Airsoft'...which I know aren't REAL guns...
But they talk about their guns pretty seriously over there..and they get quite argumentative and take it quite seriously.
Much more going on on those threads than there are in Parenting for example (and I'm sure a huge percentage of boardsies are parents)...

So what's the story...?

Celly Smunt

i've always found that people who play airsoft are very enthusiastic about guns but too afraid to join the army

Daegerty

Fittle wrote: »

What's this all about? I've noticed that most times I go to the homepage here, there's almost always a thread on 'Airsoft'...which I know aren't REAL guns...
But they talk about their guns pretty seriously over there..and they get quite argumentative and take it quite seriously.
Much more going on on those threads than there are in Parenting for example (and I'm sure a huge percentage of boardsies are parents)...

So what's the story...?

Maybe there aren't any other good Irish hunting / gun forums so they all congregate here

cml387

Fittle wrote: »

What's this all about? I've noticed that most times I go to the homepage here, there's almost always a thread on 'Airsoft'...which I know aren't REAL guns...
But they talk about their guns pretty seriously over there..and they get quite argumentative and take it quite seriously.
Much more going on on those threads than there are in Parenting for example (and I'm sure a huge percentage of boardsies are parents)...

So what's the story...?

plus the prison forum at one stage seemed to hold many of their number.

Best left alone I think.

mikemac

I think of it as the new poker forum

There was a time on boards when the poker forum was insanely busy

Now, not so much

Fittle

I've just asked a mod to delete this actually...probably not the most appropriate question to ask with the upcoming visits;)

mattjack

my biggest fear would be an airsofter crossed with a boards cyclist..particularly a fundamentalist cyclist...

o1s1n

pmcmahon wrote: »

i've always found that people who play airsoft are very enthusiastic about guns but too afraid to join the army

The whole death thing puts a lot of people off.

Celly Smunt

o1s1n wrote: »

The whole death thing puts a lot of people off.

more likely to die in a car crash

deathrider

I fail to see a problem with people taking their sport seriously. I'd imagine it would be no more serious that people talk football in the football forums, or video games in the video game forums.
I've been airsofting once or twice with my mates. They are big into it. It's good craic, and encorages keeping healthy and competitiveness. Not exactly my cup of tea, but I can completely understand why people are all about it.

arybvtcw0eolkf

pmcmahon wrote: »

i've always found that people who play airsoft are very enthusiastic about guns but too afraid to join the army

Worse still are the online gamers - CoD nerds, christ on a stick but they crack me up.

Skerries

Fittle wrote: »

I've just asked a mod to delete this actually...probably not the most appropriate question to ask with the upcoming visits;)

if you're serious then shame on you :mad:
if you're not then sunshine and lollipops

ride-the-spiral

boards has many sections dedicated to man-children: games, airsoft, anime , modified cars.

wixfjord

Alexandria Grumpy Comedian wrote: »

Worse still are the online gamers - CoD nerds, christ on a stick but they crack me up.

Or meatheads, they crack me up!

Mint Sauce

They do have a full forum on it OP. As there is for all other interests as well.

Micky Dolenz

Please don't discuss other fora in AH.

It ain't neighbourly.