We’re about 30 people who’re going to play some hardball for a few hours today. Good news is, I’m really looking forward to it; it’s been years since I last played. Bad news is, it is pissing down. Literally; pissing.
And the ugly news? It’s only going to get worse according to the weather report. Much, much worse.
Luckily, as my lieutenant in the infantry used to say: “Good think you’re not made of powder Heilemann”.
Semper Fi motherfuckers! AARRGGHHHhhhhh <machinegunfire.mp3> <adagio.mp3>
Update: Alright, I’m back. Had great fun with the shooting (haul up in a tower with a liter of 6mm bb’s and a fully automatic rifle is fuuuun). But I learned another important lesson as well, namely that the mind is incapable of comprehending how close death might have been.
Seriously.
So there we were, dandily cruising along on the highway at 80kmph, and it is raining! Really! And we’re cruising for about 30 minutes or so before we take our turn and head down some of the sideways to get to the hardball place (out smack dab in the middle of nowhere!), when suddenly, when we’re down to 5-10kmph, one of those ‘uh oh, what the fuck was that?!’-sounds makes us all furrow our brows and look inquisitively at each other (the ‘did you just fart, and did that fart sound like heavy machinery breaking?’-look).
Turns out, the front part of the suspension just went and done got itself busted.
Just like that.
10 minutes after we left the highway and torrential weather.
Let’s never mention it again :)
Well, it can´t be worse than swamp soccer, can it? : )
Haha, you’re in the top 5 results for a Google search of “semper fi motherfuckers” (with quotes).
How old was the car? The average car in Denmark is crappy, unsafe and old thanks to the absurd taxes on cars.
About 20 years; Mercedes stationcar.
A good thing no one got hurt.
I had a hunch that the car was old. While Mercedes cars are safer than most, a lot has happened in 20 years. I once read that Volvo and Mercedes are the only carmakers that go out to investigate real accidents on site to find ways to improve safety. I just googled and found this comment with more details: http://tinyurl.com/yub4fl
Don’t forget the occational aquaplannig on the highway (which only I, the driver could feel propably), and the shotting BB’s in the face of the enemy when he’s only 7 ft. away. Aswell as the “I HAVE YOUR SIX, ratatat (lie) and so on. In retrospect it must have been: Danger Day!!
Run for your lives!
So is “hardball” the same/similar to what we know as paintball in the U.S.?
Or are you actually shooting each other with BB’s?
No, they’re actually 6mm plastic BB’s.
So it would be much like Airsoft then? (which I would assume would be called the same in the US as it would be here in the Great White North)
Yes; exactly like Airsoft.
Here, I made a wish for you :p
http://mbledug.com/wish/view-4460