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Title: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: König on January 22, 2013, 03:55:50 am: The following list comes from my own experiences, along with bits and bobs I've found elsewhere. I thought the rest of you reenactors might also get a laugh out of it, and/or have things to add.
So feel free to post additions, I'll add them to the list. :D
(Any period, though try and keep additions "period-neutral" if you can)

You know you're a reenactor when...
-Nobody will watch a war movie with you.
-You've worn wool when the temperature tops 100 degrees, repeatedly.
-You won't hesitate to spend $150 on a good pair of reenacting shoes, but $29.95 "dress" shoes are outrageously over-priced.
-Your Christmas/birthday wish-list reads like a quartermaster's supply list.
-You've driven by some open land and thought, "What a great place for a battle!"
-You make career decisions based on if it effects your weekends.
-You are wary of others seeing you change at home, but no problems in the parking lot.
-When you come home after an event you are hit with depression.
-Buying a new vehicle, it must fit all of your gear and tentage inside of it or it's a no-go.
-Come home sore, bruised, dehydrated, sunburnt, and covered with ticks and it was a good weekend.
-For a week long reenactment you can fit everything on your back. For a weekend reenactment you need a truck and trailer.
-You replay a certain scene in a documentary or youtube video over and over again to look at the .2 second frame you were in.
-You've made a nest with your wool to lie in when there's a reenacting "dry season". (Or as my dad says, "Feldgrau Fever")
-Your reenacting room/closet has more expensive items in it than any other room of the house.
-You have more shoes and boots for reenacting than modern footwear.
-You earn a good salary, but are always broke.
-You corrected your history teacher back in grade school.
-While out to eat, you've been asked if you were Amish. (Hey, dey be the triple k! Naw, dey ain't the triple k. Dey somethin!)
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Landrik on January 23, 2013, 04:40:39 am: -You make career decisions based on if it effects your weekends.
-You are wary of others seeing you change at home, but no problems in the parking lot.
-When you come home after an event you are hit with depression.
-Buying a new vehicle, it must fit all of your gear and tentage inside of it or it's a no-go.
-Come home sore, bruised, dehydrated, sunburnt, and covered with ticks and it was a good weekend.
-For a week long reenactment you can fit everything on your back. For a weekend reenactment you need a truck and trailer.
-You replay a certain scene in a documentary or youtube video over and over again to look at the .2 second frame you were in.
-You've made a nest with your wool to lie in when there's a reenacting "dry season". (Or as my dad says, "Feldgrau Fever")
-Your reenacting room/closet has more expensive items in it than any other room of the house.
-You have more shoes and boots for reenacting than modern footwear.
-You earn a good salary, but are always broke.
-You corrected your history teacher back in grade school.
-While out to eat, you've been asked if you were Amish. (Hey, dey be the triple k! Naw, dey ain't the triple k. Dey somethin!)

You've heard these:
Is that gun real?
Does it shoot real bullets?
How do you know if you're dead?
Are you sleeping out here?
Are you going to eat that food?
Aren't you hot/cold?
What if it rains?
(After the battle) Did you die?
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Duuring on January 23, 2013, 08:14:59 am: Our eldest member and veteran sergeant has heard enough questions.
They ask: "are you going to eat this?" He says: "of course not. After you are gone, we trow it away and head for Mcdonalds."
They ask: "Do you really sleep in these tents?" And he says: "hell no, we're staying in a nearby hotel"

And strangely enough... The public always believe him...
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Dordak_the_Lost on January 23, 2013, 03:50:31 pm: Quote from: Landrik on January 23, 2013, 04:40:39 am
You've heard these:
Is that gun real?
Does it shoot real bullets?
How do you know if you're dead?
Are you sleeping out here?
Are you going to eat that food?
Aren't you hot/cold?
What if it rains?
(After the battle) Did you die?

Lol The one I get every time is "How do you know when to die?"

I've heard tales of stupid questions from the more veteran guys. Stuff like...

"Why were so many battle fought on National Parks?"
"Did they hide behind the monuments?"
"Why are there no bullet marks on the monuments?"
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Duuring on January 23, 2013, 05:17:31 pm: Quote from: Dordak_the_Lost on January 23, 2013, 03:50:31 pm
"Why were so many battle fought on National Parks?"
"Did they hide behind the monuments?"
"Why are there no bullet marks on the monuments?"

That's so brilliant.

You know when you are a Napoleonic re-enactor when...You can't wear a bicorn without being called 'NAPOLEON' by a dozen visitors.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 12:53:38 am: Quote from: Dordak_the_Lost on January 23, 2013, 03:50:31 pm
Quote from: Landrik on January 23, 2013, 04:40:39 am
You've heard these:
Is that gun real?
Does it shoot real bullets?
How do you know if you're dead?
Are you sleeping out here?
Are you going to eat that food?
Aren't you hot/cold?
What if it rains?
(After the battle) Did you die?

Lol The one I get every time is "How do you know when to die?"

I've heard tales of stupid questions from the more veteran guys. Stuff like...

"Why were so many battle fought on National Parks?"
"Did they hide behind the monuments?"
"Why are there no bullet marks on the monuments?"
LOLOLOL

Stupid questions I've been asked as a historical interpretor at Fort George (The Citadel).

"Do people still live here"
"Did all 1000 garrisoned soldiers live in that one house"
"Can I take your photo with my garden Gnome"
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: König on January 24, 2013, 12:55:22 am: Quote from: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 12:53:38 am
"Can I take your photo with my garden Gnome"
ROFL XD
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 12:56:22 am: Quote from: König on January 24, 2013, 12:55:22 am
Quote from: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 12:53:38 am
"Can I take your photo with my garden Gnome"
ROFL XD
She actually took a garden gnome out of her purse and sat it next to me...
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: König on January 24, 2013, 12:59:14 am: Quote from: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 12:56:22 am
Quote from: König on January 24, 2013, 12:55:22 am
Quote from: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 12:53:38 am
"Can I take your photo with my garden Gnome"
ROFL XD
She actually took a garden gnome out of her purse and sat it next to me...
What. The. Fudge.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: DeoVindice61 on January 24, 2013, 01:20:46 am: Quote from: König on January 24, 2013, 12:59:14 am
Quote from: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 12:56:22 am
Quote from: König on January 24, 2013, 12:55:22 am
Quote from: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 12:53:38 am
"Can I take your photo with my garden Gnome"
ROFL XD
She actually took a garden gnome out of her purse and sat it next to me...
What. The. Fudge.

'Murica.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 01:32:49 am: Quote from: DeoVindice61 on January 24, 2013, 01:20:46 am
Quote from: König on January 24, 2013, 12:59:14 am
Quote from: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 12:56:22 am
Quote from: König on January 24, 2013, 12:55:22 am
Quote from: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 12:53:38 am
"Can I take your photo with my garden Gnome"
ROFL XD
She actually took a garden gnome out of her purse and sat it next to me...
What. The. Fudge.

'Murica.
Actually, Canada, but American tourists.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: DeoVindice61 on January 24, 2013, 01:48:20 am: Quote from: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 01:32:49 am
Quote from: DeoVindice61 on January 24, 2013, 01:20:46 am
Quote from: König on January 24, 2013, 12:59:14 am
Quote from: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 12:56:22 am
Quote from: König on January 24, 2013, 12:55:22 am
Quote from: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 12:53:38 am
"Can I take your photo with my garden Gnome"
ROFL XD
She actually took a garden gnome out of her purse and sat it next to me...
What. The. Fudge.

'Murica.
Actually, Canada, but American tourists.

Yeah that's what I meant. :P
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Odysseus on January 24, 2013, 01:56:41 am: Lol, I can't imagine what it would be like in an ACW reenactment with a 100% American crowd... :P
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: DeoVindice61 on January 24, 2013, 04:26:46 am: Ronald McDonald will be leading the Confederates into a full scale charge against a fortified trench by Colonel Sanders while the Cowboys saved the day by luring the aliens to wipe out the Confederate forces. While the American crowd jeers and whoop along for their favorite team.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Dordak_the_Lost on January 24, 2013, 04:28:11 am: Quote from: DeoVindice61 on January 24, 2013, 04:26:46 am
Ronald McDonald will be leading the Confederates into a full scale charge against a fortified trench by Colonel Sanders while the Cowboys saved the day by luring the aliens to wipe out the Confederate forces. While the American crowd jeers and whoop along for their favorite team.
Coming up next on The History Channel...
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Landrik on January 24, 2013, 09:51:25 am: Ah, the public.

I'd love to do Vietcong, Napoleonic (dunno what, probably French) as well as RevWar Brit - but I'm broke enough. xD
It's good being the "bad guy". :P
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Duuring on January 24, 2013, 11:10:47 am: It's hard saying who's the bad guy in wars.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Landrik on January 24, 2013, 11:55:01 am: Which is why I say it in quotations. ;)
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: zac on February 23, 2013, 12:03:49 pm: well as said before people always ask:

"are they,,the coats,,warm"
"ae those guns real??" :/
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: DeoVindice61 on February 23, 2013, 04:01:59 pm: Quote from: zac on February 23, 2013, 12:03:49 pm
well as said before people always ask:

"are they,,the coats,,warm"
"ae those guns real??" :/

Lol, I've never been asked by a public before. But I just got my new event list this year. Theres whole alotta living history from here to June. So I'll be keeping my ears open for comments like that. ;D
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: zac on February 23, 2013, 11:42:06 pm: the worst thing is the weather can be 40 Degrees C and they still ask if its warm :)
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Millander on February 25, 2013, 10:40:05 pm: You know you're a reenactor when you participate in reenacting events.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Duuring on February 25, 2013, 10:52:45 pm: Quote from: Millander on February 25, 2013, 10:40:05 pm
You know you're a reenactor when you participate in reenacting events.

We got a winner.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: König on February 26, 2013, 04:42:47 am: Quote from: Duuring on February 25, 2013, 10:52:45 pm
Quote from: Millander on February 25, 2013, 10:40:05 pm
You know you're a reenactor when you participate in reenacting events.

We got a winner.
Someone give the man a prize.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: DeoVindice61 on February 27, 2013, 07:43:41 pm: You know your a reenactor when your looking forward to a 8 mile marching event.

(yep, going on a 8 mile in snow, marching... so stoked)
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Landrik on June 13, 2013, 06:23:13 am: You know you're a reenactor when you tell your sister her $350 purse is a stupid waste of money while wearing $1000 of dirty wool.

You know you're a reenactor when you think that the people who come out and take pictures of you wearing wool in 90 degree weather are the crazy ones.

You know you're a reenactor when you hate it when women talk about the color of their skirt while you and your buddies get into shouting matches about what is the right shade of feldgrau.

You know you're a reenactor when your idea of an "impulse buy" is a Dirty Billy hat.

You know you're a reenactor when the only run-ins you've had with the authorities are with park rangers after-hours.

You know you're a reenactor when you can strip down your rifle blindfolded but microwave meal instructions need to be read more than once.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: DeoVindice61 on June 13, 2013, 06:32:49 am: Lol, i can relate to some of them.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: zac on June 14, 2013, 02:54:13 am: Quote from: Landrik on June 13, 2013, 06:23:13 am
You know you're a reenactor when you tell your sister her $350 purse is a stupid waste of money while wearing $1000 of dirty wool.

You know you're a reenactor when you think that the people who come out and take pictures of you wearing wool in 90 degree weather are the crazy ones.

You know you're a reenactor when you hate it when women talk about the color of their skirt while you and your buddies get into shouting matches about what is the right shade of feldgrau.

You know you're a reenactor when your idea of an "impulse buy" is a Dirty Billy hat.

You know you're a reenactor when the only run-ins you've had with the authorities are with park rangers after-hours.

You know you're a reenactor when you can strip down your rifle blindfolded but microwave meal instructions need to be read more than once.
Agreed
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: zac on June 14, 2013, 12:51:42 pm: You know you're a reenactor when the girl you likes birthday is 4 days away and you realize you've spent all your money on reenactment gear.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Ted on June 15, 2014, 03:43:49 pm: Quote from: zac on June 14, 2013, 12:51:42 pm
You know you're a reenactor when the girl you likes birthday is 4 days away and you realize you've spent all your money on reenactment gear.

To bring this topic back to live: Hell, give that man a cookie!
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: zac on June 15, 2014, 03:47:24 pm: haha!
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Ted on June 15, 2014, 04:47:41 pm: You know you should be an reenactor when your parents think you're crazy because you would like to dress like in the past, act like in the past and live like in the past. ::)
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Captain America on June 15, 2014, 05:05:18 pm: You know you're a reenactor when you make hardtack out of season because you're feeling nostalgic
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: joer5835 on June 16, 2014, 11:32:12 pm: You know you're a reenactor when you see someone walking in front of you on the street and you automatically start walking in his pace.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: DeoVindice61 on June 17, 2014, 12:11:18 am: Quote from: joer5835 on June 16, 2014, 11:32:12 pm
You know you're a reenactor when you see someone walking in front of you on the street and you automatically start walking in his pace.

Now that i would say you have a problem.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Duuring on June 17, 2014, 12:14:50 am: I have had the same.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Mr T on June 17, 2014, 12:15:55 am: I have it when I'm walking around with mates after an event, I'm always looking at their feet and trying to get in step x)
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Duuring on June 17, 2014, 12:18:56 am: I guess it's just something Napoleonic'ers do. Cos you know, marching is pretty big thing for us and all. Love youuu, ethan.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: DeoVindice61 on June 17, 2014, 12:37:20 am: Quote from: Duuring on June 17, 2014, 12:18:56 am
I guess it's just something Napoleonic'ers do. Cos you know, marching is pretty big thing for us and all. Love youuu, ethan.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ i have to get into that since the Germans like to march in sync too. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuq.

But, skirmish formation 90% of time. WW2 uber alles <3
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Ililsa on June 17, 2014, 12:56:39 am: No farby goosestepping though.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Duuring on June 17, 2014, 01:11:34 am: Quote from: Ililsa on June 17, 2014, 12:56:39 am
No farby goosestepping though.

Are you saying this is farby?

Spoiler
(https://www.fsegames.eu/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi47.tinypic.com%2Ffm4qd.jpg&hash=c2abd0f5760d53362f4edabd096589a6bf1544a5)
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Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: DeoVindice61 on June 17, 2014, 01:30:09 am: Quote from: Duuring on June 17, 2014, 01:11:34 am
Quote from: Ililsa on June 17, 2014, 12:56:39 am
No farby goosestepping though.

Are you saying this is farby?

Spoiler
(https://www.fsegames.eu/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi47.tinypic.com%2Ffm4qd.jpg&hash=c2abd0f5760d53362f4edabd096589a6bf1544a5)
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dafuq.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: SherlockCat on June 17, 2014, 02:07:53 am: Quote from: Duuring on June 17, 2014, 01:11:34 am
Quote from: Ililsa on June 17, 2014, 12:56:39 am
No farby goosestepping though.

Are you saying this is farby?

Spoiler
(https://www.fsegames.eu/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi47.tinypic.com%2Ffm4qd.jpg&hash=c2abd0f5760d53362f4edabd096589a6bf1544a5)
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It's farbulous.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Landrik on June 17, 2014, 04:57:17 am: No Stechschritt?

Hasser werden hassen.

Spoiler
(https://www.fsegames.eu/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F24.media.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_m1zt4lvlcs1qc6lt4o1_500.jpg&hash=1e067041f959b8e5ae3f68db6fbd3fc4d291e7a9)
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Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: DeoVindice61 on June 17, 2014, 04:59:52 am: Quote from: Landrik on June 17, 2014, 04:57:17 am
No Stechschritt?

Hasser werden hassen.

Spoiler
(https://www.fsegames.eu/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F24.media.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_m1zt4lvlcs1qc6lt4o1_500.jpg&hash=1e067041f959b8e5ae3f68db6fbd3fc4d291e7a9)
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Dem cap.Hnnnghhh :-*
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: TWking on June 17, 2014, 11:41:13 pm: Quote from: Mr T on June 17, 2014, 12:15:55 am
I have it when I'm walking around with mates after an event, I'm always looking at their feet and trying to get in step x)

I've been doing that recently and Im not a reenactor. :o
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Barnesy on June 18, 2014, 11:23:38 pm: You know you're a reenactor when, on the 199th anniversary of the battle of waterloo, you teach your scout troop napoleonic foot drill
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: joer5835 on June 18, 2014, 11:26:40 pm: I've spent this 199th aniversary watching the 1970 Waterloo movie.....
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Barnesy on June 18, 2014, 11:29:06 pm: Quote from: joer5835 on June 18, 2014, 11:26:40 pm
I've spent this 199th aniversary watching the 1970 Waterloo movie.....
Lucky, I've been at work most of the day, then came home and had to teach the little scrotes drill. I now have no voice as they don't like to listen
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: DeoVindice61 on June 19, 2014, 01:42:01 am: I've spent the 199th Anniversary of waterloo by picking on duuring how silly his hobbies are.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Duuring on June 19, 2014, 01:42:41 am: Quote from: DeoVindice61 on June 19, 2014, 01:42:01 am
I've spent the 199th Anniversary of waterloo by picking on duuring how silly his hobbies are.

:'(
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Vincenzo on June 21, 2014, 12:20:07 am: Which one?
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: DeoVindice61 on June 21, 2014, 01:48:35 am: Quote from: Vincenzo on June 21, 2014, 12:20:07 am
Which one?

All of them.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Malkolm R. Lind on September 11, 2015, 09:50:17 am: Sometimes when I hear people say the word "reload", I always slap my back pocket, thinking that my cartridge box would be there... Then I realize that it's not a reenactment... :'(
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: joer5835 on September 15, 2015, 07:47:58 pm: And in what context do people say "reload" in their daily lifes?
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Malkolm R. Lind on September 15, 2015, 11:13:37 pm: Quote from: joer5835 on September 15, 2015, 07:47:58 pm
And in what context do people say "reload" in their daily lifes?
I never really meant to say that people say it everyday. But it has happened several times these months. "Ladda" is something that I often hear from my classmates regarding their phones. Ladda means charge/load in swedish.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: joer5835 on September 16, 2015, 12:10:11 pm: Okay, that actually makes sense. :P

Now, you know you're a reenactor when you study history at uni and the first thing you do when you get your textbooks, is skipping straight to the chapters about your period. (Napoleonic for me)
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: zac on September 17, 2015, 02:19:30 pm: guilty as charged...raged at one of my books for not having the napoleonic wars last more than a page :'(
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Malkolm R. Lind on September 17, 2015, 04:36:03 pm: My book had 2 pages of the napoleonic wars... Damn it.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: OttoFIN on September 17, 2015, 04:37:03 pm: 10 pages of NW, hell yee
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Malkolm R. Lind on September 17, 2015, 05:52:22 pm: Quote from: OttoFIN on September 17, 2015, 04:37:03 pm
10 pages of NW, hell yee
oh fak off... :c :'(
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Salcos on September 18, 2015, 07:07:34 am: When your ears are ringing after all that dank Cannon firing
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Malkolm R. Lind on September 18, 2015, 07:52:44 am: Quote from: Salcos on September 18, 2015, 07:07:34 am
When your ears are ringing after all that dank Cannon firing
I use ear protection. Just make sure you can hear your COs.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: joer5835 on September 20, 2015, 09:07:20 pm: Ear protection all the way. I don't care how small a battle is, I ALWAYS have ear protection. I value my hearing greatly, I'd like it to last me a lifetime.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Vorposten on September 22, 2015, 01:13:09 pm: Quote from: joer5835 on September 20, 2015, 09:07:20 pm
Ear protection all the way. I don't care how small a battle is, I ALWAYS have ear protection. I value my hearing greatly, I'd like it to last me a lifetime.
After having to much powder in my rifle and shot it out of a small gap in a stronghold so I got thrown back a little and have ringing in my ears in 2014, I always put pieces of handkerchief in my ears.
(what a long sentence)
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: joer5835 on September 22, 2015, 04:19:39 pm: Perhaps I should look into getting some period accurate looking ear protection as well.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Duuring on September 22, 2015, 05:39:49 pm: cloth does the trick, really. Besides, in a field and when firing in a line, you'll don't have that much need of ear protection anyway. It's the bangs from the opposition that does the damage.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Malkolm R. Lind on October 12, 2015, 10:04:05 am: Sometimes I see clouds of fog and think it's a cloud of musket smoke. ;_;
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Vorposten on October 12, 2015, 05:32:11 pm: Sometimes I see beautiful places and think, this would be a great battlefield/camp for Reenactment :'(

Everytime I smell, that someone burns wood, I think that a Camp/Reenactment must be near. ;)
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Duuring on October 12, 2015, 07:36:56 pm: Quote from: Vorposten on October 12, 2015, 05:32:11 pm
Sometimes I see beautiful places and think, this would be a great battlefield/camp for Reenactment :'(

Everytime I smell, that someone burns wood, I think that a Camp/Reenactment must be near. ;)

This, so much.
Title: Re: You know you're a reenactor when...
Post by: Mr T on October 12, 2015, 07:52:46 pm: When you're walking and have Napoleonic French songs and military music on your phone and keep changing your pace to the beat of the drum.
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Post by: Malkolm R. Lind on October 12, 2015, 11:18:16 pm: Quote from: Mr T on October 12, 2015, 07:52:46 pm
When you're walking and have Napoleonic French songs and military music on your phone and keep changing your pace to the beat of the drum.
Oh yes, I can relate to this so well! I sometimes use napoleonic marches to get up this really big hill to the bus.
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Post by: joer5835 on October 13, 2015, 04:21:09 pm: When people say gunpowder (when talking about firearms in history) and you instantly want to correct them into saying black powder.
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Post by: The_Tennessean_Mt_Man on July 25, 2017, 04:09:23 am: You tape duct tape on your foot's blisters.