Want to hear something silly? ( something silly ...something silly!, sorry couldn't help it. ) I have been playing Call of Duty 4 lately like a madman trying to get my rank up, sitting at Gunnery Sergeant at present, and I've noticed something. Shocking that, but what it was that I noticed, didn't come to me until I got what I didn't notice hit me square in my face during my game last night. You see, I got tea bagged by a fool after he busted a cap in me. Immediately after that happened I realized that I haven't been tea bagged in a coon's age. Perhaps that has a lot to do with my lack of playing Halo 3 and Shadowrun for a long while.



Y'know, it's a funny thing getting tea bagged. I mean sure the act itself is a humorous thing. But what's even more so is the effort for the player in question to apply to that supposed demoralizing act. Especially in a game like Call of Duty 4 when death is a mere step away. To do that to someone, your basically thinking: I'm going to risk my team objectives and my possible death, because of vulnerable position I'll be in, just to simulate my digital nuts going in your digital mouth. That's when the act becomes even more funny.


OBJECTION.

Some call the act itself childish, immature or just plain silly. It is all that, but it sure doesn't lose it's fraternal charm when done to you by a friend and vice versa. Anyway back to my story, so after this guy performed the deed upon me, my initial response, aside from, oh this asshole did not just teabag me!, was file the memory for a post. Now typically when I post something I'm always looking for pictures to incorporate into my blog. Imagine my surprise when I just googled the word "Tea Bag" and a plethora of half pornographic, half blog posts and articles were of the topic of my recent incident. From rapping about it..to creating dances about it, I was just taken aback by the sheer volume.


Are you kidding me? They'll make a dance about anything nowadays.

I mean I saw Blog posts with titles like Tea Bagging for Dummies..I didn't know just hitting the crouch button was that hard but obviously there's a secret technique I didn't know about. There were people who inspired by Halo marathons and the tea bag finisher, decided to do this in real life at school...what!? Then of course if it's popular, the merchandise cometh. Tea bag t-shirts anyone?


O.K. then.

If there was a gaming site, they hand a write up with the subject at hand. Some even had instructional videos. It seemed that the web was just bursting at the seems with game related tea bagging stories and oddities, like tea bagging friends while they sleep in the real world ( Some friend of mine ever had the audacity to do that to me in real life would find their nuts in his mouth ).


This is pretty tame. There were quite a few more graphic in their execution.

The crazy part about all this is that it's just common. If your playing a video game that is multi player and your character can squat, expect a forthcoming tea bag . From Counter-Strike to Resistance back to Halo3 and beyond your going to have this done to you and most likely you'll be doing it too. If only for retribution. Or you could just go the other end of the spectrum and become a full fledged maniac about it, teabagging everything and everyone in the game.



So. Are we a Teabagging Nation? It's safe to say that yes...yes we are. It defitnately has the reach and penetration of pop culture. Even my old ass wasn't above the fray. Remember that dude that tea bagged me in COD4? Well, after he did that, I didn't care about anything else but finding Wat3rl00 so I could return the favor. It took me almost to the end of the match but finally I dropped him and did the deed. Childish?, yeah, immature?, you betcha. Satisfying?


WHAT. THE. FUCK.

100%.