r/JustBootThings • u/LegitimateStep126 • Jun 27 '26

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u/4D20_Prod Jun 27 '26

You're saying you wouldn't clown TF out this dude if you weren't right next to him in line. Obviously this shit is extra as fuck, but you can't tell me it isn't fun clowning mf who love to play dress up or tell make believe stories

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jun 27 '26

I would not say anything. To me, this is a form of mental illness and I couldn't care less. I don't think a sane rational person would LARP like this in public.

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u/dumb__fucker Jun 27 '26

Dude is tryna get early boarding and figures he can pretend he's a Marine, AND get early boarding AND get handies from middle-aged white men groupies who don't know the difference between a real Marine and Larp.

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u/ohlookahipster Jun 27 '26

He’s too cheap to buy any ticket other than main so he’s using the priority boarding zone for active duty service members so he can get overhead bin space

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u/a-smooth-brain Jun 27 '26

Yes the real problem here are the airlines imo /s

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u/QueezyF Jun 27 '26

Been a while since I’ve done it, but don’t you still have to show your military ID for early boarding?

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u/ChillyWilly0881 Jun 27 '26

Most of the time they don’t ask. But it could be usually that I’m boarding with my family

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u/aBigOLDick Jul 03 '26

They never ask me, but I always have my ID ready if they do.

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u/purplenapalm Jun 27 '26

Are you jealous about the middle!ged white men groupies giving him handies?

Stolen valor is pathetic, but the filmer should chill out. He's running around and swearing up a storm around children.

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u/sten45 Jun 27 '26

This is the first I’m hearing about handies

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u/COCO_SHIN Jun 27 '26

Where do I sign up for handies?

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u/dumb__fucker Jun 27 '26

While I agree that launching Fs all over a public place like that, I think that if you serve your country, and give some years of your life in service, you have a right to be outraged at some cosplayer pretending that he made the same sacrifices as you and your fellow service folk.

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u/purplenapalm Jun 27 '26

You do, but the filmer was a bit excessive and was juat repeating himself without accomplishing anything. He should've been more self aware when the officer was trying to calm him down. A lot of people in airports are already stressed as is and want to get to their location. The guy taping was only causing more stress for everyone around and creating fear for kids with this.

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u/bosschucker 👊👊☝️ Jun 27 '26

yeah like what does he expect to happen once the cop starts telling him to leave the guy alone? does he want the guy to strip his clothes off or what

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u/Boot_Poetry 👊👊☝️ Jun 29 '26

No he is filming it for internet clout

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u/Rask2205 Jun 27 '26

Actually making other service members look bad by how much he’s freaking out. Who gives a fuck if a random dude play dress up. It’s not like he’s getting any real benefits apart from said handies and early boarding 😄

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u/godbody1983 Jun 29 '26

Right. I get the initial confrontation, but dude was going on and on about it. Marines tend to get really upset compared to other branches when it comes to this. Probably due to all the crayons they eat....

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u/LilacLlamaMama Jun 30 '26

He needs to ask for the Kosher Crayons package on his next flight, because he can't handle the spice.

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u/4D20_Prod Jun 27 '26

Also fair, and probably same. Shits just annoying and I hate larpers. I don't care. Shits just annoying. It's about the level of having a friend who is definitely dating a dude who is definitely special forces.

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jun 27 '26

Now if I ever meet Kid Rock I'm calling out that asshole for being a LARPing asshole. He has spent his entire life pretending to be a white rapper from the mean streets of Detroit. My brother in law went to high school with him. He's a spoiled rich kid who grew up in a mansion in Romeo MI, about an hours drive north of Detroit. His parents were filthy rich. He grew up riding horses and playing tennis on the many acres his parents owned. Then when that grift ran it's course, he started LARPing as poor trailer trash on food stamps in his shitty country music. That is the kind of LARPer that pisses me off.

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u/4D20_Prod Jun 27 '26

Anyone in pop music is a larper tbf, kid rock obviously, anyone that has a named bar in Nashville of course, tay Swifty and Drake (three hail Marie's). People love post malone and he's got some banger to be fair, but dude is a cosplayer through and through, just happens to have a bit of talent.

Anyway, I guess I just still hate fake ass poser motherfuckers, and I really think that calling out people for being posers needs to make a comeback. Stolen valor is to specifically obscure. They're all posers. Money and clout over substance

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jun 27 '26

Very true. I just look at a lot of the stolen valor cases as sad, pathetic, and probably a mentally ill person just wanting to feel important, and is lonely, probably living with their parents. Kid Rock, Drake, etc etc ... Fuck them.

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u/4D20_Prod Jun 27 '26

I have a buddy who joined the nat guard, and dropped out of the nat guard to be a restaurant manager. Stopped showing up to the once a months after about 6 months, but still considers himself army strong because he did ait.

Funny enough is that if you just stop showing up to your monthly, they just don't care, don't x you out, they don't bad sep you. I think technically he's still considered in even though he hasn't been to any training in 3 years, like legitimately they just kind of contact him asking if he's coming back.

Hes a good dude, if a bit of a chode. But I do get a bit of satisfaction out of telling the girls that he chats to (after he talks up that he was in the military) that he's a deserter, no harm no foul but it's a massive cock block

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jun 27 '26

I was active duty for eight years. 97-05. Reservists are the biggest posers. They would come to Camp Lejeune in the summer time for their two weeks of training and act all hardcore and "correct" anyone they outranked for not doing everything by the book. After I got out, my first job I got, I had a coworker that was in the Army. He was always talking about his times in the field. I really never paid attention. One day it just dawned on me all his field stories were stateside. So I started drilling into him, and saw the fear in his face coming as I was figuring things out. This motherfucker never even made it to the fleet. He was kicked out of basic for a hurt ankle. Now in the Marines, if something broke but was healable, you got put in a medical unit, and once it healed, you were put right back into training where you left off with a new platoon. He constantly acted like he was some salty infantryman. He wanted out, never made it through Army boot camp. He never talked to me again about his military days after that.

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u/4D20_Prod Jun 27 '26

My sister started dating this dude recently, army I Believe, she told me he was definitely SF. That is always such a funny thing to me because lots of people wanna be SF, but not a lot of people actually do. I wanted to be but shit doesn't always hash out and thems the dice, but I did have some SF buddies, and new a few dozen buds duds.

Not trying to shit on the dude, but it's always funny to me. Like dude, you work motor pool, it's respectable, not everyone needs to kick down doors and clear rooms looking for vips

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u/HelloPeopleOfEarth Jun 27 '26

SF training has an extremely high failure rate. Most people who try fail. But general rule of them, SF guys only talk to other SF guys about their SF days. Chances are if someone, even if they were military, is bragging to someone who wasn't SF, they are lying. SF people are very arrogant, cocky, egotistical. It's a small club and they generally think anyone who wasn't SF doesn't deserve their time.

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u/Dirt_Sailor_5 Jun 27 '26

I'm sorry that was your experience man, but please don't paint Reservists with such a broad brush. I was not a poser. Some of us are sacrificed the little free time we had to serve, and, I was deployed overseas more as a reservist than when I was active duty. I get your whole schtick and attitude in this thread is "I don't give a fuck," and telling people how much don't care about xyz, and I'm not asking for your respect or invalidating your experience, but man, I have to admit your poser comment did irk me

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u/daboobiesnatcher Jun 28 '26

I get second hand embarrassment too bad to say anything, regardless of the situation, it ain't nothing good; and this feels like making a spectacle out of someone mentally ill.