Gunny

[Black Diamond]

Some folks are all bark and no bite.


Gunny may be all bite and no bark?



Discuss.

[Gunny]

Some folks are all bark and no bite.


Gunny may be all bite and no bark?



Discuss.

Depends on the game. If you mean as a Marine I will use every means fair or foul to whip your ass. Unlike those who like to dismiss their enemies, I get in their heads. I know Uncle Ho's playbook better than he does. Come game time and suiting up? I'm your worst nightmare.

[Little-Acorn]

If he were no bark, we'd never know he was here.

[Black Diamond]

If he were no bark, we'd never know he was here.

On here, he has some bark.

In real life? Probably says two to three words and opens the door with your face.

[Gunny]

On here, he has some bark.

In real life? Probably says two to three words and opens the door with your face.

In real life I don't talk. I watch. It's kind of hard to not "talk" on a medium based on written word. I've always been accused of being an ass and standoffish.

But I Have nothing to prove. People that talk too much are usually trying to prove something. Waste of time. Especially on the internet. When I talk about me, as I have said before, it's because I AM standoffish. My reference point to others is observation and experience. If you note, I discuss things I know about. Seen me in a stock market thread? I know it crashed in 29.

Want to play basketball? I'll hobble my crippled ass out and beat you.

[Balu]

If he were no bark, we'd never know he was here.

I would like to say a couple of words to defend Gunny, though he is in my ignore list and since that time I don't read his posts.
We all are subject to so called professional deformation and everybody has own top ceiling which make a person interesting for you or not. He is a serviceman, a sergeant, dedicated his life to the defense of his country and for this he is a man to be respected by definition. Thanks to such men you all can feel yourself in safety. Bear in mind the peculiarities of his service and that any military service is not a honey at all. So, he is as he is, and it is up to you either pay attention to him or ignore him like me if he is not interesting for you as an interlocutor.

[Elessar]

I kind of think it is fair time to lighten up on him if you cannot figure the satire and humor he uses.

Yeah, he will push 'you' into a corner verbally and can contest with the best. But why pick
open a sore that was not already there of your own choosing?

You do not have to respond to some of his input...but some do it just to be contentious...

I respect him a lot, even though he tries to bust my gonads at times.

[NightTrain]

He's just a big ol' teddy bear.

🐻

[Black Diamond]

I kind of think it is fair time to lighten up on him if you cannot figure the satire and humor he uses.

Yeah, he will push 'you' into a corner verbally and can contest with the best. But why pick
open a sore that was not already there of your own choosing?

You do not have to respond to some of his input...but some do it just to be contentious...

I respect him a lot, even though he tries to bust my gonads at times.

I respect him too. That's why I started the thread.

Dude was a bouncer. That's where the opening the door with your face comment came from.

More later.

[Gunny]

I would like to say a couple of words to defend Gunny, though he is in my ignore list and since that time I don't read his posts.
We all are subject to so called professional deformation and everybody has own top ceiling which make a person interesting for you or not. He is a serviceman, a sergeant, dedicated his life to the defense of his country and for this he is a man to be respected by definition. Thanks to such men you all can feel yourself in safety. Bear in mind the peculiarities of his service and that any military service is not a honey at all. So, he is as he is, and it is up to you either pay attention to him or ignore him like me if he is not interesting for you as an interlocutor.

Why put someone on ignore? Not only is it a weak move, it is tactically stupid. I'm going to respond. You pretending it's not there is like all these goofs pretending radical Islam doesn't exist. It's STILL there for everyone to see.

Aside from that, you take things too seriously. Lighten up. It's a message board. I'm in Texas. Ain't a whole lot going to happen unless you show up in my yard.

[Black Diamond]

I would like to say a couple of words to defend Gunny, though he is in my ignore list and since that time I don't read his posts.
We all are subject to so called professional deformation and everybody has own top ceiling which make a person interesting for you or not. He is a serviceman, a sergeant, dedicated his life to the defense of his country and for this he is a man to be respected by definition. Thanks to such men you all can feel yourself in safety. Bear in mind the peculiarities of his service and that any military service is not a honey at all. So, he is as he is, and it is up to you either pay attention to him or ignore him like me if he is not interesting for you as an interlocutor.

I think you may misunderstand. This ain't a bashing thread. And the ignore thing I don't get.

[Gunny]

I think you may misunderstand. This ain't a bashing thread. And the ignore thing I don't get.

I've never gotten the ignore thing. It's weakness to me. I WILL exploit it. I ain't shutting up. You don't want to read what I have to say that everyone else is reading, who loses? Putting someone on ignore means you're a sounding post without the balls to man your own line.

[Balu]

I think you may misunderstand. This ain't a bashing thread. And the ignore thing I don't get.

I always ignore those who can not behave themselves according to my view. And I don't want their posts to irritate my eyes. Moreover the persons who talk within a frame of labels and blinkers are not interesting for me to discuss anything. I am not in my service here, to keep on smiling to anybody whose dogmas I disagree with. I am sick and tired of this for the past decades.

[Balu]

Some folks are all bark and no bite.
Gunny may be all bite and no bark?
Discuss.

There is a Russian saying "A dog which barks never bites." So, I see there is no sense in barking at each other. And then, sometimes barking is a mean to camouflage and hide own weakness. The ancient Romans used to say "Jupiter, you are getting angry? So you are not right"
And finally. Life is too short and unpredictable to be spoiled by barking and biting not only here.

[Gunny]

There is a Russian saying "A dog which barks never bites." So, I see there is no sense in barking at each other. And then, sometimes barking is a mean to camouflage and hide own weakness. The ancient Romans used to say "Jupiter, you are getting angry? So you are not right"
And finally. Life is too short and unpredictable to be spoiled by barking and biting not only here.

Agreed. Just because I can be your worst enemy doesn't mean I won't walk WAY out of my way to avoid confrontation. While I can be the most dangerous person you know, I am the least violent one you know. I abhor violence. People get hurt and die. There is nothing to be taken lightly about that. If you are going to use violence you better mean it and have a good reason.