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Reply below with your 2018 Thread of the Year (link or title). One vote per member. It needs to be a thread started in 2018!
1st place receives Vortex CF Red Dot donated by G&R Tactical
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And This is How Civil Wars Begin....
I nominate Stickman’s group buy thread that resulted in Centurion Arms lowers, uppers and unobtainium rails at great prices.
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?204439-Group-buy-ideas-does-anyone-have-interest-and-if-so-what-are-the-interests
Take your pick of TED threads...I have finally embraced his desire to morph one platform into another.
Business_Casual
12-13-18, 05:16
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?210301-Megalithic-Structures-in-Europe-and-the-America-s-re-writing-history-as-we-know-it/page7
Stone melting Giants FTW!
RetroRevolver77
12-13-18, 13:44
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Can it be the most retarded thread of the year? Or most retarded responses?
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The civil war thread would be my pick.
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?209586-And-This-is-How-Civil-Wars-Begin
Considering the somewhat contentious subject matter I'm surprised the Civil War thread has remained so.....civil. That fact right there might qualify it for Thread Of The Year status.
Moose-Knuckle
12-14-18, 06:39
Can it be the most retarded thread of the year? Or most retarded responses?
We should have our own version of the Golden Raspberry Awards . . .
I remember more than a few went full retard in the pistol pocket hate thread lolirl! But yeah there has been some epic retard threads / posts this past year.
I love this place. :cool:
My vote is "And This is How Civil Wars Begin...." thread.
It really is the thread that keeps on giving...
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?208652-Military-Weapons-Trial-only-the-Kalashnikov-AK-103-finishes-the-torture-tests
No amount of subject matter experts or logic makes a dent.
https://media.giphy.com/media/2dcW1Dlu2sZnW/giphy.gif
Coal Dragger
12-14-18, 22:08
That thread is a classic. So much derp from one remarkably and willfully stupid individual in particular.
Come to think of it the member I’m thinking of has a unique ability to dick up almost any thread he posts in with his derp.
All he needs to do is also extol the virtues of dual wielding Beretta 93R’s out of SERPA holsters and that thread would break the internet and space time continuum.
RetroRevolver77
12-14-18, 22:43
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We should have our own version of the Golden Raspberry Awards . . .
I remember more than a few went full retard in the pistol pocket hate thread lolirl! But yeah there has been some epic retard threads / posts this past year.
I love this place. :cool:
I have a nice trophy in mind. [emoji3]
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Moose-Knuckle
12-15-18, 07:01
No amount of subject matter experts or logic makes a dent.
Catch Mr. Vickers' remarks @ 04:38 . . . :p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmj0XOMNjR8&feature=youtu.be
I have a nice trophy in mind. [emoji3]
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I dig it!
Though in true M4C fashion it should be a golden statue of a Beretta 93R, just say'n.
ramairthree
12-15-18, 08:57
There was a pretty epic thread about a middle aged machine gun collecting martial artist that got soggy fries at MacDonalds. But I think that was before 2018. I am going with civil war thread.
RetroRevolver77
12-15-18, 10:54
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It really is the thread that keeps on giving...
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?208652-Military-Weapons-Trial-only-the-Kalashnikov-AK-103-finishes-the-torture-tests
No amount of subject matter experts or logic makes a dent.
https://media.giphy.com/media/2dcW1Dlu2sZnW/giphy.gif
You sir just won the internet.
Considering the somewhat contentious subject matter I'm surprised the Civil War thread has remained so.....civil. That fact right there might qualify it for Thread Of The Year status.
Boy this post aged poorly
My vote is "And This is How Civil Wars Begin...." thread.
I will second this one as well. Informative, motivational, tragic, amusing, it has all of the elements of good internet soothsaying.
Looks like we have a leader....and 2nd best?
Here are some top threads with high post/view counts this year:
Justice Kavanaugh (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?209400-Justice-Kavanaugh&highlight=)
Active shooting: Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?204408-Active-shooting-Stoneman-Douglas-High-School-in-Parkland-Florida&highlight=)
And so it begins - NEW GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION AND UPDATES (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?204747-And-so-it-begins-NEW-GUN-CONTROL-LEGISLATION-AND-UPDATES-HERE&highlight=)
Mid Terms - Thoughts - Pedictions - Aftermath (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?210293-Mid-Terms-Thoughts-Pedictions-Aftermath&highlight=)
Military Weapons Trial, only the Kalashnikov AK 103 finishes (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?208652-Military-Weapons-Trial-only-the-Kalashnikov-AK-103-finishes-the-torture-tests&highlight=)
How Close We Really Are to Gun Confiscation (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?204923-How-Close-We-Really-Are-to-Gun-Confiscation&highlight=)
Things gun guys say about ARs that make you cringe (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?203818-Things-gun-guys-say-about-ARs-that-make-you-cringe&highlight=)
Looks like we have a leader....and 2nd best?
Here are some top threads with high post/view counts this year:
Justice Kavanaugh (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?209400-Justice-Kavanaugh&highlight=)
Active shooting: Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?204408-Active-shooting-Stoneman-Douglas-High-School-in-Parkland-Florida&highlight=)
And so it begins - NEW GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION AND UPDATES (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?204747-And-so-it-begins-NEW-GUN-CONTROL-LEGISLATION-AND-UPDATES-HERE&highlight=)
Mid Terms - Thoughts - Pedictions - Aftermath (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?210293-Mid-Terms-Thoughts-Pedictions-Aftermath&highlight=)
Military Weapons Trial, only the Kalashnikov AK 103 finishes (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?208652-Military-Weapons-Trial-only-the-Kalashnikov-AK-103-finishes-the-torture-tests&highlight=)
How Close We Really Are to Gun Confiscation (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?204923-How-Close-We-Really-Are-to-Gun-Confiscation&highlight=)
Things gun guys say about ARs that make you cringe (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?203818-Things-gun-guys-say-about-ARs-that-make-you-cringe&highlight=)
Honestly if we are being serious, the Stoneman Douglas High School thread is probably the most serious in terms of first responder considerations and risks to CCW types during an active shooter situation. A lot of "wake up call" in that thread.
There was a pretty epic thread about a middle aged machine gun collecting martial artist that got soggy fries at MacDonalds. But I think that was before 2018. I am going with civil war thread.
That was three years ago and thanks to my support group I'm much better now. :D
Also helps that I left Florida and now have a Taco Johns option which is always high quality, tasty and freshly made. Sadly even here McDonalds fries are pretty subpar but I no longer care. Only been there twice in the last year.
SeriousStudent
12-15-18, 23:08
SteyrAUG - If you ever get out to West Texas, you need to try Taco Villa.
Coal Dragger
12-16-18, 00:46
That was three years ago and thanks to my support group I'm much better now. :D
Also helps that I left Florida and now have a Taco Johns option which is always high quality, tasty and freshly made. Sadly even here McDonalds fries are pretty subpar but I no longer care. Only been there twice in the last year.
Soggy fries at MacDonalds?
What the hell is the world coming to?
You paid good money for that sleeve of fried starch, prepared by indifferent teenagers, and wanted it to be crispy! They probably even told you to have a nice day, knowing what they had done.
That’s on the same level of disrespect as someone making eye contact with you while their dog shits on your lawn on a hot humid morning with no breeze. They look at you, make eye contact even... then look at their dog laying another greasy rancid glop of shit on your lawn. Your nostrils flare involuntarily at the putrid cocktail of dog intestinal track waste, stomach bile, and who knows what else. It hangs in the air, burning your nostrils, lingering at the back of your throat. Your morning ruined. Any appetite you had, gone. They look back at you, a subtle smile on their face, and without so much as a word spoken continue on their way.
What?... there are threads? I thought this was a high tech blanket.
Doc Safari
12-17-18, 16:46
I had a couple I wanted to nominate but neither one was started in 2018.
Could the mods please re-open the Civil War thread? I had intended that to be a chronicle if things got steadily worse or seemed to calm down after a period of time and the thread died on its own.
Seein' as how the "troublemaker" in that thread looks to have been banned....could we have it back, please?
SeriousStudent
12-17-18, 17:43
And it's fascinating how not a single person in that thread used the "Report Post" button to report those troublemaker(s)..... There are multiple problem children in GD. Some of them are gone, some more are leaving.
Hitting that button sends an email to every mod on the board. None of us got one. It would be nice to have a wee bit of assistance in GD, when threads go off the tracks.
Doc Safari
12-17-18, 17:49
And it's fascinating how not a single person in that thread used the "Report Post" button to report those troublemaker(s)..... There are multiple problem children in GD. Some of them are gone, some more are leaving.
Hitting that button sends an email to every mod on the board. None of us got one. It would be nice to have a wee bit of assistance in GD, when threads go off the tracks.
I see your point. I thought he was a troll right off the bat, then he made a couple of valid points so I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. I wanted to report his ass initially, but then he did bring up a couple of things that I tried to see his point of view. By the time he got banned I had gotten busy and didn't have time to follow the thread. I went back to it today to make a comment and saw it was closed.
I think it's cool people want to nominate it.
In the interest of my not being a total narcissist, egotist, special snowflake it's probably inappropriate for me to nominate my own thread for thread of the year, but I did think we were getting a lot out of it before trouble walked in the door. There were some posts that were interesting and I had nothing to do with them.
Larry's thoughts At 3:50 in that video above between the AK and the AR align with my thoughts on the subject as well.
But, also at 32:30 LAV said the eastern bloc guys get something AR patterned when they get a chance.
I would vote for Stickman's "dog thread".
Oh well, looks like it started 11/17.
Seein' as how the "troublemaker" in that thread looks to have been banned....could we have it back, please?
Troublemaker, LOL! Is that what you called Godel The Logician? I would call him a dissonant chord in the echo chamber.
I enjoyed the idea of little hardwired brains exploding because someone brought their own thoughts to the fight rather than dogma.
Troublemaker, hah!
Doc Safari
12-17-18, 20:55
I put it in quotes.
I know, I also read this after I wrote that:
then he made a couple of valid points so I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. I wanted to report his ass initially, but then he did bring up a couple of things that I tried to see his point of view
FWIW, I would second the nomination of the thread, and think it should be reopened.
Also, when Godel first appeared, I thought, hmm, is that a Nazi nameand goggled it. Kurt Gödel was a mathematician, logician, and philosopher. I kind of figured that was the way banned dude was trying to roll.
Doc Safari
12-17-18, 21:18
If he had just stayed away from what looked like he was deliberately provoking...
I felt he provided a thoroughly annoying, but useful contrarian point of view in some of his posts. In others though it seemed like he was just trading snark with 7N6, and I sort of skipped over a lot of that. So if there was anything profound there, i.missed it.
donlapalma
12-17-18, 23:14
I felt he provided a thoroughly annoying, but useful contrarian point of view in some of his posts. In others though it seemed like he was just trading snark with 7N6, and I sort of skipped over a lot of that. So if there was anything profound there, i.missed it.You didn't miss anything profound. I promise.
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Moose-Knuckle
12-18-18, 02:53
So if there was anything profound there, i.missed it.
Just the typical DNC/leftist/liberal/progressive regurgitated rhetoric .... conservatives are Nazis and murder blacks, Jews, Sikhs, gays blah....blah....blah and the worst the left does in this country is knock hats off peoples heads and spit on them once in awhile.
He started out in another thread about firearms and ammunition stores cached for disasters so if you take that into account along with how he was triggered by the Civil War 2.0 thread it's obvious he takes issue with armed conservatives and their views on the nation's current sociopolitical climate. But hey that's what passes for a logician these days LOLIRL!
Could the mods please re-open the Civil War thread?
I would like to request this also. As well as acknowledge my role in causing it to be locked to begin with.
Despite the shenanigans that caused the thread to be locked, I feel it was educational both up to and during that point. For those who might not have much exposure to varying points of view it did provide (a small sample of) insight into how some others view the things we do/behave.
As far as reporting that individual, to me it felt hypocritical given the current state of the general/social media habit of late to try to silence people they disagree with.
Doc Safari
12-23-18, 08:25
One more plea to reopen the civil war thread please...
SeriousStudent
12-24-18, 10:01
One more plea to reopen the civil war thread please...
The Civil War thread has been reopened. Please help us keep an eye on it, and report any uncivil behavior.
Thanks.
Doc Safari
12-24-18, 10:08
Cool. Thanks. And BTW did I win? 😄
SeriousStudent
12-24-18, 10:13
Hahahahaha - Reading those Lotto numbers so closely..... :laugh:
The Civil War thread has been reopened. Please help us keep an eye on it, and report any uncivil behavior.
Thanks.
Uncivil behavior in a thread about Civil War...... what? Am I the only one that sees the irony in this. LOLOLOLOL
It actually had remarkably little hostility in it prior to Godel showing up.
The fact that so many posters in there seemed to be on more or less the same page might be a concerning indication of the plausibility of the scenarios being discussed..
It actually had remarkably little hostility in it prior to Godel showing up.
The fact that so many posters in there seemed to be on more or less the same page might be a concerning indication of the plausibility of the scenarios being discussed..
Now, quit that. If I get to posting about some of you thin-skinned guys and your dogma it will get locked again. (editorial you - not personal) :jester:
SeriousStudent
12-24-18, 13:17
Uncivil behavior in a thread about Civil War...... what? Am I the only one that sees the irony in this. LOLOLOLOL
I am glad someone got the joke. :cool:
Cool. Thanks. And BTW did I win? 😄
Yes. PM us your shipping info! Congrats.
Due to the low number of votes, we are only going with the 1st place winner: https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?209586-And-This-is-How-Civil-Wars-Begin Congrats, again!
ramairthree
12-26-18, 20:56
Due to the low number of votes, we are only going with the 1st place winner: https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?209586-And-This-is-How-Civil-Wars-Begin Congrats, again!
Dam it. I was about to change my vote to the Commando Ninja thread.
Doc Safari
12-27-18, 09:59
Thanks for the belated Christmas goodie!
Question: I would like to buy a quick detach mount with a 1/3 cowitness for that Vortex Crossfire. Will a mount that fits the Aimpoint T1 or T2 fit?
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Doc Safari
01-25-19, 16:14
Just curious as for an ETA on getting the prize. I realize things happen behind the scenes that I'm not aware of, so I was figuring 4-6 weeks is par for the course, but I'm just wanting to confirm that.
Thanks.
Shot is done so normal ops are back in swing-I will check on it. Sorry for delay.
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