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12-18-2007, 02:51 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: northampton
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12-18-2007, 03:01 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: No Cajones en El Cajones
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12-18-2007, 03:34 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Manitoba, Canada
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for sure but who cares. we're promoting the hobby! RC hobby grade is so underground, i mean you realize how big it is only IF you have hobby grade rc's yourself! The only time i dont feel nerdy is when im running my nitro 1/8th truck, my monster. cause then people look at it as nuts! The other thing that gets me is trying to explain to people why its so expensive
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12-18-2007, 03:54 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Funky Town
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I bet if you check the top ten highest paid people in the world they would all at one time or still do classify as a dork..... R/C's are bada$$, you are confusing how bad you feel that everyone on your block doesn't have one with embarrassing situations.... stop that! I know what you mean. I found a really cool waterfall on a corner of a busy intersection. I took my crawler over to it for some pictures. I didn't feel cool @ all, but the pictures are freakin sweet... Oh well, guess I'll make a tee-shirt on my cafe press account. It will read... "Short Bus Racing" then people will just think I'm special and not a dork.  |
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12-18-2007, 04:34 PM
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| Hell's Gnome Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: I'm mean because you're stupid.
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Yup. i'm 35 and I "feel" like the biggest geek on the block. I have a few trucks for the beach, sometimes I feel way to nerdy to take them out and 4 wheel roost sand on the public beach, but if I bring enough trucks the other people we hang with at the shore will be out there with me so it doesn't feel so bad. Yeah, self concious for some reason.  |
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12-18-2007, 04:44 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Flatwoods
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I am 30 and have been into hobby grade R/Cs for the 20 years. I love it and never feel like a dork while running them. People are always coming up to me to see what they are and think they are as cool. I usually end up spending more time answering questions than running my cars.lol
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12-18-2007, 04:45 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Sacramento
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Ahh yes, the "am I a dork?" question... Answer: Who cares? The only people that would call you a dork are either teasing you because your shafty doesn't have the ground clearance of their pimp cane, or they are an 'outsider' wondering why you're playing with these silly toys. Either way, just tell them "you're just jealous" and keep crawlin'! |
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12-18-2007, 04:55 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Arkansas
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I will probably feel like a bit of a dork when I roll up in my orange K5 and pull out a 1/10th scale replica which I will then run through mud and rocks while snapping tons of pictures. Quote:
I didnt feel like a dork when I used to run my LST, Savage, and 1/8th buggy at a big park in Virginia Beach. Sometimes there would be a pretty big group of people who would stand around and watch. The inevetable question would come up: "How much does one of those cost?" Of course the answer for a modded LST "I have a little over $1000 in this one." Their response:  | |
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12-18-2007, 05:14 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
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12-18-2007, 05:22 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Commerce Twp.
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You know my wife could never figure out why I send so much money on RC. So years ago I took her and some of her girl friends to a race ( Kyosho Clallange) In Sterling heights MI they where blown away on how big the event was and how many people turned out for it. So feel like a dork no way. And who cares what other people think HAVE FUN |
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12-18-2007, 05:38 PM
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| Built, not bought   Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Gresham
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Nope.Too old to care what people think of me.  |
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12-18-2007, 05:47 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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12-18-2007, 05:50 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: santa monica
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12-18-2007, 05:56 PM
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| Adilynsdad too!   Join Date: May 2004 Location: G ville
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I always run my RC'c naked... That way the neighbors forget about the RC's and laugh at other things |
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12-18-2007, 05:58 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson/Las Vegas, NV
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ive had a mohawk for years, i wear knee high black socks with shorts, and i play with RC cars.. i really dont care what people think about me.
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12-18-2007, 05:59 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Happiness is a warm AK.
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12-18-2007, 06:12 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Queensland
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Iv gathered a collection of r/c's now, i've got about 8 of the things at the age of 14, i take them out, flog em and crap and couldn't care less. Way i see it, if people think its dorky they've never been into hobby grade r/c's. When i take out my TL-01, Completely hopped up, not a stock bit left on it, people look at me like "Why the hell are you playing with a toy from the local cheap shop" until i open it up and they slow right down to see it go. I went to a drift meet on saturday, 40 odd people just drifting from a small community where r/c isnt big and its just amazing how many people are into it. If i were you, i wouldnt care, just run your truck and have fun, dont worry about others jealousy. |
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12-18-2007, 06:14 PM
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| Adilynsdad too! Join Date: May 2004 Location: G ville
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12-18-2007, 06:19 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Sometimes .. yah. But... then when you are watching from the sidelines of a outdoor nitro r/c truggy event ... and you feel dorky just standing there watching it and not being able to take part in it. There is a local indoor carpet race track setup in the basement of a Canadian Legion and there is racers half my age (im 30 btw) and racers that are at least half to double my age older then me. I'm basically sitting right in the middle, so I don't mind. Now if I loose to a 13 year old ..... arrrrgh! Everyone at work wants me to bring in my r/c's to play with while at work ... however I dont want the owner to catch me fiddling with them. LOL |
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12-18-2007, 06:21 PM
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| Old guy  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Northwest Arkie-saw and we got ROCKS!
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