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Airsoft Items FOR SALE / Time To Let It Go (AEG, GBB, mags, etc) - $150
« on: August 26, 2012, 10:27:34 PM »
Getting out of airsoft sale! Selling everything for $150 - one swoop, one kit. Just get it out of my place. I've forgotten what all of it really even is. I know it's worth more than $150 and you're getting a deal.

The AEG is a Frankenstein gun Ron worked with. It has no Front Sight because I only used actual LMT Irons and I use those for other things. The rear sight is something Ben (Phx Cobra) gave me.  The front free float rail NEVER sat right. I don't believe anyone that ever worked with it could get it to sit right. You can see it from the picture. I never cared, it's airsoft - you aim with the stream of beans anyways. Comes with 4 Magpul mags. It comes with two QD sling mounts, 1.5" and no battery. The battery would go in the stock if you were to get one. It's been so long I don't even know if this is obsolete or not. But the gun works fine. The hop up might need some work, it's been decommissioned for quite some time.

The GBB is also from Gearbox. I forgot what brand it was, I don't even think a very reputable one. There's a video of it working below and you can see some of the mags are sketchy - I think it's from sitting for three years. The handgun NEVER let me down when I used it regularly. Comes with 3 mags.

Comes with everything below, just a bunch of stuff. I believe I've even got more mags and equipment in storage in Tempe. Whoever buys this gets whatever I find there as well. But no guarantees I find good stuff, or anything really.

Email me at nathan.hyland@gmail.com with any interest. I really really don't want to split any of this up. It's just laziness. Turn it around and get more if you want.

http://youtu.be/YitJUBLHhRI << GBB Video

















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General Off-Topic Discussion / How to behave on an internet forum
« on: January 30, 2009, 09:43:06 AM »
Posted from another forum... who posted from another forum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onCPJH6swoY

TOTALLY should be a sticky :-P.. I don't follow half these rules anyways.  :oops:

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Worse than Myspace.. Meez!
« on: November 15, 2006, 08:06:20 PM »
So, I just found this site, Meez.  You just make your own animated character and give it some animation. All there is to it, funny shit too.

Here's my character. It's supposed to match me the night that I went to Octoberfest with my friend, Noemi.

http://www.meez.com/studdermonkey

They've got stuff like Military themes (for most users here), geek, scifi, NHL, whatever. Funny stuff.

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Airsoft Items FOR SALE / FS: CA Cqb-R
« on: August 07, 2006, 02:56:21 PM »
As seen, except the BUIS you'd get is the one that came with it.



Lower reciever painted with Duracoat, comes with Gonzo 4000mah 9.6 and vertical grip (painted as well) and upgraded to 360ish (last time I chrono'd at LCV).

Willing to meet at Phoenix JT on 35th and Northern. $400 cash, or paypal (+3%).

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Real Firearms / Liquid Armor?
« on: June 23, 2006, 10:53:34 PM »
http://www.break.com/index/newarmor23.html

That seems pretty damn cool. Anyone else have any info?

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General Off-Topic Discussion / "What would you do if.." (Video)
« on: May 05, 2006, 10:52:23 AM »
Question from arfcom. "If you were in that restaurant and witnessed this happening and you were carrying concealed, what would you have done?"

www.wtflmao.com/data/media/8/050106_kil ... reason.wmv

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Accessories & Gear / LCV Kits
« on: April 05, 2006, 09:07:18 PM »
I remember last year, Andy or someone made a thread for people to show off their LCIV kits. I loved that thread. I thought an LCV Kit thread would be a good idea, since I hear a few people getting a few things. So, who's up for showing off what they'll be using?

I'll post a picture of mine as soon as I finish one or two more things for the kit. If it matters, it's a mix of my old, my new, and my not mine.

And maybe this should have gone in the appropriate forum, but who knows.

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Spore
« on: March 15, 2006, 04:02:07 PM »
Who's heard about it?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 0184348066

My friend, Geoff told me about it. I don't know the release date, but I hear for 360 and PC. I'd ask for information, but that video is an hour long and shows alot of gameplay.

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Bus Filled With Romans
« on: January 21, 2006, 11:01:33 PM »
Found on another forum. I came THIS close to pissing my pants.

http://www.steakandcheese.com/downloads ... Romans.wmv

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Real Firearms / For Those Who Missed Out.. :)
« on: December 26, 2005, 12:07:13 PM »
For those who missed out on the group buy that Matt held with the mags, here are two other deals I found, just by searching another forum..

New D&H USGI 30rd aluminum Grey Teflon with factory installed MAGPUL brown no-tilt followers $11.97 each.
http://www.44mag.com/prodinfo.asp?number=DH30GMP

New CP USGI 30rd aluminum mags $8.99 each. Standard military dry film finish. Green followers
http://www.44mag.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CP30

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Accessories & Gear / ComTac/SwatTac vs Sordins?
« on: December 12, 2005, 03:02:31 AM »
Ok. I know a shitload of you (high speed) guys have Sordins, but how many have (or have had) the Comtacs? I just got some overpriced Peltor 6's and I think they're badass, but the independent hearing adjustment blows. I was looking at the differences, and there aren't that many that I found. I would simply ask in person or whatever, but it being 3 in the morning, this is something to do. So, what are the major differences in how comfortable they are, features, and etc? I searched a few other forums and I found people saying they liked one or the other more, but not many reasons why. I would simply ask in person or whatever, but it being 3 in the morning, this is something to do.

Example, the com/swattacs make a cutting in/out sound when the louder sounds are heard, and the sordins tend to fade in/out if I'm correct. Sordins would be in the lead at that point. Do the Sordins have the option to attatch a mic if needed? I know you can get the ComTacs with mics, or you can get them separately. Can you get the ComTac v.1's with mics? I didn't find anything about that, mainly stuff on ComTac v2's.Also, how sensative to sound is one vs. the other?

And, I found a good point on the two being overkill and for people that just want to look cool. I agree with that, and it's why I got the peltors I have in the first place. But, if I ever DO get to an airsoft game, the sordins/comtacs would be nice to wear for ear protection (it's winter.. getting shot in the ear will hurt like nothing else), radio capability and if even possible, mic capability (on the sordins)?

David: Yes, I googled it. But, as you know.. my googlefu is pathetic.

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Darwin Awards (Funny Stuff)
« on: December 03, 2005, 12:10:26 PM »
I got these emailed to me, and they're a bit screwed up. Random exclamation marks everywhere. I swear, I think ICE wrote these or something. But these are all funny.

It's that magical time of the year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us. Here then, are the glorious winners.

Darwin Award Winners:

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked..... And now, the honorable mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence, sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his Vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill o! n the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man! pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer...$15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?)

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman wa! s able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.

A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER!
10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sew! age. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasolin! e and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Traitor
« on: November 26, 2005, 12:48:56 PM »
This was posted on 3 other forums. I thought, since a few people here aren't on those forums, I'd post this here..

http://mfile.akamai.com/12926/wmv/vod.i ... 8.300k.asx

He used to post on a few of the forums, or at least ar15. I'm pretty speechless.

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Body Ritual among the Nacirema
« on: November 04, 2005, 11:56:00 PM »
I thought this was cool. I don't know how many people have read it, or even get it (I do!). If you do, elaborate!

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Author - Horace Miner

Most cultures exhibit a particular configuration or style. A single value or pattern of perceiving the world often leaves its stamp on several institutions in the society. Examples are "machismo" in Spanish-influenced cultures, "face" in Japanese culture, and "pollution by females" in some highland New Guinea cultures. Here Horace Miner demonstrates that "attitudes about the body" have a pervasive influence on many institutions in Nacirema society.

The anthropologist has become so familiar with the diversity of ways in which different people behave in similar situations that he is not apt to be surprised by even the most exotic customs. In fact, if all of the logically possible combinations of behavior have not been found somewhere in the world, he is apt to suspect that they must be present in some yet undescribed tribe. The point has, in fact, been expressed with respect to clan organization by Murdock.[2] In this light, the magical beliefs and practices of the Nacirema present such unusual aspects that it seems desirable to describe them as an example of the extremes to which human behavior can go.

Professor Linton [3] first brought the ritual of the Nacirema to the attention of anthropologists twenty years ago, but the culture of this people is still very poorly understood. They are a North American group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles. Little is known of their origin, although tradition states that they came from the east....

Nacirema culture is characterized by a highly developed market economy which has evolved in a rich natural habitat. While much of the people's time is devoted to economic pursuits, a large part of the fruits of these labors and a considerable portion of the day are spent in ritual activity. The focus of this activity is the human body, the appearance and health of which loom as a dominant concern in the ethos of the people. While such a concern is certainly not unusual, its ceremonial aspects and associated philosophy are unique.

The fundamental belief underlying the whole system appears to be that the human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease. Incarcerated in such a body, man's only hope is to avert these characteristics through the use of ritual and ceremony. Every household has one or more shrines devoted to this purpose. The more powerful individuals in the society have several shrines in their houses and, in fact, the opulence of a house is often referred to in terms of the number of such ritual centers it possesses. Most houses are of wattle and daub construction, but the shrine rooms of the more wealthy are walled with stone. Poorer families imitate the rich by applying pottery plaques to their shrine walls.

While each family has at least one such shrine, the rituals associated with it are not family ceremonies but are private and secret. The rites are normally only discussed with children, and then only during the period when they are being initiated into these mysteries. I was able, however, to establish sufficient rapport with the natives to examine these shrines and to have the rituals described to me.

The focal point of the shrine is a box or chest which is built into the wall. In this chest are kept the many charms and magical potions without which no native believes he could live. These preparations are secured from a variety of specialized practitioners. The most powerful of these are the medicine men, whose assistance must be rewarded with substantial gifts. However, the medicine men do not provide the curative potions for their clients, but decide what the ingredients should be and then write them down in an ancient and secret language. This writing is understood only by the medicine men and by the herbalists who, for another gift, provide the required charm.

The charm is not disposed of after it has served its purpose, but is placed in the charmbox of the household shrine. As these magical materials are specific for certain ills, and the real or imagined maladies of the people are many, the charm-box is usually full to overflowing. The magical packets are so numerous that people forget what their purposes were and fear to use them again. While the natives are very vague on this point, we can only assume that the idea in retaining all the old magical materials is that their presence in the charm-box, before which the body rituals are conducted, will in some way protect the worshiper.

Beneath the charm-box is a small font. Each day every member of the family, in succession, enters the shrine room, bows his head before the charm-box, mingles different sorts of holy water in the font, and proceeds with a brief rite of ablution.[4] The holy waters are secured from the Water Temple of the community, where the priests conduct elaborate ceremonies to make the liquid ritually pure.

In the hierarchy of magical practitioners, and below the medicine men in prestige, are specialists whose designation is best translated as "holy-mouth-men." The Nacirema have an almost pathological horror of and fascination with the mouth, the condition of which is believed to have a supernatural influence on all social relationships. Were it not for the rituals of the mouth, they believe that their teeth would fall out, their gums bleed, their jaws shrink, their friends desert them, and their lovers reject them. They also believe that a strong relationship exists between oral and moral characteristics. For example, there is a ritual ablution of the mouth for children which is supposed to improve their moral fiber.

The daily body ritual performed by everyone includes a mouth-rite. Despite the fact that these people are so punctilious [5] about care of the mouth, this rite involves a practice which strikes the uninitiated stranger as revolting. It was reported to me that the ritual consists of inserting a small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth, along with certain magical powders, and then moving the bundle in a highly formalized series of gestures.[6]

In addition to the private mouth-rite, the people seek out a holy-mouth-man once or twice a year. These practitioners have an impressive set of paraphernalia, consisting of a variety of augers, awls, probes, and prods. The use of these items in the exorcism of the evils of the mouth involves almost unbelievable ritual torture of the client. The holy-mouth-man opens the client's mouth and, using the above mentioned tools, enlarges any holes which decay may have created in the teeth. Magical materials are put into these holes. If there are no naturally occurring holes in the teeth, large sections of one or more teeth are gouged out so that the supernatural substance can be applied. In the client's view, the purpose of these ministrations [7] is to arrest decay and to draw friends. The extremely sacred and traditional character of the rite is evident in the fact that the natives return to the holy-mouth-men year after year, despite the fact that their teeth continue to decay.

It is to be hoped that, when a thorough study of the Nacirema is made, there will be careful inquiry into the personality structure of these people. One has but to watch the gleam in the eye of a holy-mouth-man, as he jabs an awl into an exposed nerve, to suspect that a certain amount of sadism is involved. If this can be established, a very interesting pattern emerges, for most of the population shows definite masochistic tendencies. It was to these that Professor Linton referred in discussing a distinctive part of the daily body ritual which is performed only by men. This part of the rite includes scraping and lacerating the surface of the face with a sharp instrument. Special women's rites are performed only four times during each lunar month, but what they lack in frequency is made up in barbarity. As part of this ceremony, women bake their heads in small ovens for about an hour. The theoretically interesting point is that what seems to be a preponderantly masochistic people have developed sadistic specialists.

The medicine men have an imposing temple, or latipso, in every community of any size. The more elaborate ceremonies required to treat very sick patients can only be performed at this temple. These ceremonies involve not only the thaumaturge [8] but a permanent group of vestal maidens who move sedately about the temple chambers in distinctive costume and headdress.

The latipso ceremonies are so harsh that it is phenomenal that a fair proportion of the really sick natives who enter the temple ever recover. Small children whose indoctrination is still incomplete have been known to resist attempts to take them to the temple because "that is where you go to die." Despite this fact, sick adults are not only willing but eager to undergo the protracted ritual purification, if they can afford to do so. No matter how ill the supplicant or how grave the emergency, the guardians of many temples will not admit a client if he cannot give a rich gift to the custodian. Even after one has gained and survived the ceremonies, the guardians will not permit the neophyte to leave until he makes still another gift.

The supplicant entering the temple is first stripped of all his or her clothes. In everyday life the Nacirema avoids exposure of his body and its natural functions. Bathing and excretory acts are performed only in the secrecy of the household shrine, where they are ritualized as part of the body-rites. Psychological shock results from the fact that body secrecy is suddenly lost upon entry into the latipso. A man, whose own wife has never seen him in an excretory act, suddenly finds himself naked and assisted by a vestal maiden while he performs his natural functions into a sacred vessel. This sort of ceremonial treatment is necessitated by the fact that the excreta are used by a diviner to ascertain the course and nature of the client's sickness. Female clients, on the other hand, find their naked bodies are subjected to the scrutiny, manipulation and prodding of the medicine men.

Few supplicants in the temple are well enough to do anything but lie on their hard beds. The daily ceremonies, like the rites of the holy-mouth-men, involve discomfort and torture. With ritual precision, the vestals awaken their miserable charges each dawn and roll them about on their beds of pain while performing ablutions, in the formal movements of which the maidens are highly trained. At other times they insert magic wands in the supplicant's mouth or force him to eat substances which are supposed to be healing. From time to time the medicine men come to their clients and jab magically treated needles into their flesh. The fact that these temple ceremonies may not cure, and may even kill the neophyte, in no way decreases the people's faith in the medicine men.

There remains one other kind of practitioner, known as a "listener." This witchdoctor has the power to exorcise the devils that lodge in the heads of people who have been bewitched. The Nacirema believe that parents bewitch their own children. Mothers are particularly suspected of putting a curse on children while teaching them the secret body rituals. The counter-magic of the witchdoctor is unusual in its lack of ritual. The patient simply tells the "listener" all his troubles and fears, beginning with the earliest difficulties he can remember. The memory displayed by the Nacirema in these exorcism sessions is truly remarkable. It is not uncommon for the patient to bemoan the rejection he felt upon being weaned as a babe, and a few individuals even see their troubles going back to the traumatic effects of their own birth.

In conclusion, mention must be made of certain practices which have their base in native esthetics but which depend upon the pervasive aversion to the natural body and its functions. There are ritual fasts to make fat people thin and ceremonial feasts to make thin people fat. Still other rites are used to make women's breasts larger if they are small, and smaller if they are large. General dissatisfaction with breast shape is symbolized in the fact that the ideal form is virtually outside the range of human variation. A few women afflicted with almost inhuman hyper-mammary development are so idolized that they make a handsome living by simply going from village to village and permitting the natives to stare at them for a fee.

Reference has already been made to the fact that excretory functions are ritualized, routinized, and relegated to secrecy. Natural reproductive functions are similarly distorted. Intercourse is taboo as a topic and scheduled as an act. Efforts are made to avoid pregnancy by the use of magical materials or by limiting intercourse to certain phases of the moon. Conception is actually very infrequent. When pregnant, women dress so as to hide their condition. Parturition takes place in secret, without friends or relatives to assist, and the majority of women do not nurse their infants.

Our review of the ritual life of the Nacirema has certainly shown them to be a magic-ridden people. It is hard to understand how they have managed to exist so long under the burdens which they have imposed upon themselves. But even such exotic customs as these take on real meaning when they are viewed with the insight provided by Malinowski [9] when he wrote:

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General Off-Topic Discussion / Holy Cow, She's Nuts!
« on: October 23, 2005, 10:09:17 PM »
This bitch is Carazay!

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/tradingspouses.html

Warning: Typical big boys, "get your boobies here" ads.

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