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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:19:21 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   • Mong

   I'm getting into the weeds a bit, since challenge coins and COINS are in diff. worlds. Coins got big because they sell in gun magazines - those guys are preppers so over the years it was easy to offload gold and silver rounds at a markup if you could make a fun t-shirt design that they liked. The guys thought the end of the economy was only 10 years away (for the last 50 years) so they would slop it up.

   That merged with the GWOT boom in military and gun hobbyism, cool units commission cheesy coins for whatever that fake drinking game they played in the 80's was. That's why gun nerds will have all kinds of weird, stupid shit like this: Maybe it comes with guns as a "bonus", maybe they got one from a guy who was in a SUPER COOL SECRET MILITARY UNIT like the "Death Wears Fuzzy Bunny Slippers" guys. Either way it's a 36¢ piece from china with some enamel paint on the front

   I hate them, they're no use to me and aside from giving them to kids (so they can be burdened by wanting to throw them away forever) there's no use for them
   
   RT: https://bae.st/objects/70d11311-df37-450d-bccf-3154c3e50af4

   • Christmas_Man (christmas_man@thebag.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:25:18 JST Christmas_Man

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     • Mong
     I had some 80's Army vet slap one on the bar in front of me once after we got to talking about military BS. He was quite excited about it, expectantly waiting for me to slam one down until I told him "Oh, that's not really a thing I've ever seen anyone do. We never really needed to make up an excuse to buy people drinks in the Navy." He was super sad, and followed up with "Oh, well now you know that if someone pulls one out and you don't have a challenge coin, you have to buy them a drink."
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 05:28:33 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Christmas_Man
     • Mong

     @Christmas_Man @McMongoose Every time someone says "I think I know someone who had it happen once", and the poor guy is always crestfallen that he didn't get a chance to use it - it would make his coin worth carrying all those years.

     I wonder if it's just the culture of officer bars, base fraternization as time went on. Drinking culture began to slowly wane w/ gen X, millennials ended up having Xbox instead, from the sound of it.