skydiverek 63 #1 March 27, 2006 Attached Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Miami 0 #2 March 27, 2006 Now what's really cool about that picture is that they are both wearing racers.Miami Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites crazydiver 0 #3 March 27, 2006 QuoteNow what's really cool about that picture is that they are both wearing racers. And one looks like its colored similar to yours Miami! Cheers, Travis Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites dqpacker 7 #4 March 27, 2006 Those rigs must have been left in the toilet by someone smart. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites crazydiver 0 #5 March 27, 2006 QuoteThose rigs must have been left in the toilet by someone smart. Oh no you didn't...new can of worms...I'll sit back and enjoy... Cheers, Travis Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites JohnRich 4 #6 March 27, 2006 If I was going to exit and freefall with a large hunk of porcelain, I would sure want to wear a helmet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Miami 0 #7 March 27, 2006 Harsh, man, harsh. Would you care to elaborate on why you feel this way about racers?Miami Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Icon134 0 #8 March 28, 2006 Was the toilet just "dropped" following this operation or was there a parachute or something attached to it?Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites DJL 235 #9 March 28, 2006 I'd brind toilet paper."I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites dqpacker 7 #10 March 28, 2006 There is a dude at my dz that loves them, and we love giving him crap about it. Maybe you've heard of him, Bergie. If you know him, you know its so much fun giving him crap. The new ones aren't bad, but he jumps old one's, which aren't bad for what he does, camera and crw. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skydiverek 63 #11 March 28, 2006 QuoteWas the toilet just "dropped" following this operation or was there a parachute or something attached to it? No idea. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites FreeflyGoat 0 #12 March 29, 2006 Quote but he jumps old one's, which aren't bad for what he does, camera and crw. Yeah, the old ones are great for camera and CRW, especially when your toggle comes out and wraps around your camera. The picture does not show the first part of the stunt, pulling the crap out of the toilet in freefall and putting it on their backs. Or the last half of the stunt, when they both pull their reserve handles and one gets bopped in the back of the head with his reserve PC and the other fails to open at all. Very appropriate title for this thread._________________________ goat derka jerka bukkake jihad Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites FrogNog 1 #13 March 29, 2006 QuoteIf I was going to exit and freefall with a large hunk of porcelain, I would sure want to wear a helmet. Maybe it's a plastic / fiberglass toilet instead of porcelain. The sectional density of a porcelain toilet seems like it would be high enough (especially with the kimono still on) that the formation would look more like a hybrid than the flat thing they have going on there. And if they're jumping with a large chunk of plastic or fiberglass, no real need to wear a helmet. What could go wrong? -=-=-=-=- Pull. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites riddler 0 #14 March 29, 2006 QuoteMaybe it's a plastic / fiberglass toilet instead of porcelain. My guess is porcelain. Note the high-gloss finish reflecting the arm gripper of the right-hand jumper.Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites labrys 0 #15 March 29, 2006 QuoteIf I was going to exit and freefall with a large hunk of porcelain, I would sure want to wear a helmet. And maybe an altimeter. The main-side toiletmaster is wearing his on his right wrist and the reserve-side toiletmaster doesn't appear to have one at all unless he has one hidden on his chest. Owned by Remi #? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites FrogNog 1 #16 March 29, 2006 QuoteQuoteMaybe it's a plastic / fiberglass toilet instead of porcelain. My guess is porcelain. Note the high-gloss finish reflecting the arm gripper of the right-hand jumper. The final gel-coat on fiberglass can be high-gloss as well, as long as it doesn't get abraded. Also, photoshop produces a nice high-gloss finish. I was torn over whether it would be easier to AFF a toilet for real or photoshop the reflection(s). I decided that for skydivers, the jump would be easier. -=-=-=-=- Pull. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites ZigZagMarquis 9 #17 March 29, 2006 QuoteIf I was going to exit and freefall with a large hunk of porcelain, I would sure want to wear a helmet. JR... what... you can't out-track a toilet!??! QuoteAlso, photoshop produces a nice high-gloss finish. I was torn over whether it would be easier to AFF a toilet for real or photoshop the reflection(s). I decided that for skydivers, the jump would be easier. Anyway... having seen skydivers take all kinds of shit (pun intended) out of airplanes... and done so myself... ... I'd bet its a real toilet being AFFed by some really bored skydivers. I'm just wondering if they thought about the fact that after they got done laughing their asses off... that when one of them needed to take a crap... they may be SOL... seeing as how they probably got the crapper from the head at the DZ... Heck, once way back at my home DZ a bunch of bored skydiveres video'ed an instructor teaching First Jump Course to a large pumpkin... and then took it up for its first jump; with video. Sad to say things went horribly wrong... the student pumpkin's jumpmasters didn't choose nor adjust a properly fitting harness container for it and when they pulled for the student pumpkin at the bottom because the pumpkin was unresponsive to multiple "pull" signals... the dear departed pumpkin skydiver fell from the harness and... well... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Squeak 17 #18 March 30, 2006 they look like the russian guys who did the freefall orchestra, also the image is probably mirroredYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites kimemerson 7 #19 March 30, 2006 QuoteNow what's really cool about that picture is that they are both wearing racers. could be tear drops or tracers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Miami 0 #20 March 30, 2006 Naa...from the elongated mudflaps, the tapered d-ring reserve handle, the riser covers (both NOS type racers as well), the main pin protector flaps, the hip junctions, the chest strap hardware on the left instead of the right, even the little orange plastic hook knife on the left leg strap...plainly both racers.Miami Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Miami 0 #21 March 30, 2006 Quote...also the image is probably mirrored I doubt it, as that would give our friend in the black and yellow a metal d-ring for a cutaway handle.Miami Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites mr2mk1g 10 #22 March 30, 2006 Quotethey look like the russian guys who did the freefall orchestra, 90% sure I saw this on a Russian website a year or so back... so that would make sense. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites labrys 0 #23 March 30, 2006 Quote90% sure I saw this on a Russian website a year or so back... so that would make sense. The website referenced in the photo is PolishOwned by Remi #? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites mr2mk1g 10 #24 March 30, 2006 Ah, so it is. But that wasn't the site I first saw that shot. The site I saw it (which admittedly I now cannot say if it were Russian or Polish), was a DZ's own website and the shot was in their gallery. I belive there was another shot in the sequence with some guy jumping a broomstick too... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites JohnRich 4 #25 March 30, 2006 QuoteQuoteIf I was going to exit and freefall with a large hunk of porcelain, I would sure want to wear a helmet. JR... what... you can't out-track a toilet!??! Well, most of the time I can. I was thinking more of a tumbling exit while trying to get that monster upright and stable. I'm visualizing that video of the guys who rode a car off the back end of a tailgate, and the car bucks and slides across the sky and almost creams the videoman. QuoteI'd bet its a real toilet... they probably got the crapper from the head at the DZ... My drop zone used to have a lot of those cheap plastic molded chairs to sit in, which were really comfortable around the campfire in the evening. Then someone broke one, and threw it into the fire. And it was discovered that they melt really cool on top of a fire, like a Salvador Dali painting. Most jumpers don't have a clue who Salvador Dali is, but they do know that watching a chair melt down into a blob is really cool. After that, in a matter of months, all the plastic chairs disappeared, as one after another they were sacrificed to the fire for entertainment. So now we have to stand because there are no more chairs. 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Miami 0 #2 March 27, 2006 Now what's really cool about that picture is that they are both wearing racers.Miami Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crazydiver 0 #3 March 27, 2006 QuoteNow what's really cool about that picture is that they are both wearing racers. And one looks like its colored similar to yours Miami! Cheers, Travis Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dqpacker 7 #4 March 27, 2006 Those rigs must have been left in the toilet by someone smart. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crazydiver 0 #5 March 27, 2006 QuoteThose rigs must have been left in the toilet by someone smart. Oh no you didn't...new can of worms...I'll sit back and enjoy... Cheers, Travis Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #6 March 27, 2006 If I was going to exit and freefall with a large hunk of porcelain, I would sure want to wear a helmet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miami 0 #7 March 27, 2006 Harsh, man, harsh. Would you care to elaborate on why you feel this way about racers?Miami Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Icon134 0 #8 March 28, 2006 Was the toilet just "dropped" following this operation or was there a parachute or something attached to it?Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DJL 235 #9 March 28, 2006 I'd brind toilet paper."I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dqpacker 7 #10 March 28, 2006 There is a dude at my dz that loves them, and we love giving him crap about it. Maybe you've heard of him, Bergie. If you know him, you know its so much fun giving him crap. The new ones aren't bad, but he jumps old one's, which aren't bad for what he does, camera and crw. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiverek 63 #11 March 28, 2006 QuoteWas the toilet just "dropped" following this operation or was there a parachute or something attached to it? No idea. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FreeflyGoat 0 #12 March 29, 2006 Quote but he jumps old one's, which aren't bad for what he does, camera and crw. Yeah, the old ones are great for camera and CRW, especially when your toggle comes out and wraps around your camera. The picture does not show the first part of the stunt, pulling the crap out of the toilet in freefall and putting it on their backs. Or the last half of the stunt, when they both pull their reserve handles and one gets bopped in the back of the head with his reserve PC and the other fails to open at all. Very appropriate title for this thread._________________________ goat derka jerka bukkake jihad Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FrogNog 1 #13 March 29, 2006 QuoteIf I was going to exit and freefall with a large hunk of porcelain, I would sure want to wear a helmet. Maybe it's a plastic / fiberglass toilet instead of porcelain. The sectional density of a porcelain toilet seems like it would be high enough (especially with the kimono still on) that the formation would look more like a hybrid than the flat thing they have going on there. And if they're jumping with a large chunk of plastic or fiberglass, no real need to wear a helmet. What could go wrong? -=-=-=-=- Pull. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #14 March 29, 2006 QuoteMaybe it's a plastic / fiberglass toilet instead of porcelain. My guess is porcelain. Note the high-gloss finish reflecting the arm gripper of the right-hand jumper.Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
labrys 0 #15 March 29, 2006 QuoteIf I was going to exit and freefall with a large hunk of porcelain, I would sure want to wear a helmet. And maybe an altimeter. The main-side toiletmaster is wearing his on his right wrist and the reserve-side toiletmaster doesn't appear to have one at all unless he has one hidden on his chest. Owned by Remi #? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FrogNog 1 #16 March 29, 2006 QuoteQuoteMaybe it's a plastic / fiberglass toilet instead of porcelain. My guess is porcelain. Note the high-gloss finish reflecting the arm gripper of the right-hand jumper. The final gel-coat on fiberglass can be high-gloss as well, as long as it doesn't get abraded. Also, photoshop produces a nice high-gloss finish. I was torn over whether it would be easier to AFF a toilet for real or photoshop the reflection(s). I decided that for skydivers, the jump would be easier. -=-=-=-=- Pull. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZigZagMarquis 9 #17 March 29, 2006 QuoteIf I was going to exit and freefall with a large hunk of porcelain, I would sure want to wear a helmet. JR... what... you can't out-track a toilet!??! QuoteAlso, photoshop produces a nice high-gloss finish. I was torn over whether it would be easier to AFF a toilet for real or photoshop the reflection(s). I decided that for skydivers, the jump would be easier. Anyway... having seen skydivers take all kinds of shit (pun intended) out of airplanes... and done so myself... ... I'd bet its a real toilet being AFFed by some really bored skydivers. I'm just wondering if they thought about the fact that after they got done laughing their asses off... that when one of them needed to take a crap... they may be SOL... seeing as how they probably got the crapper from the head at the DZ... Heck, once way back at my home DZ a bunch of bored skydiveres video'ed an instructor teaching First Jump Course to a large pumpkin... and then took it up for its first jump; with video. Sad to say things went horribly wrong... the student pumpkin's jumpmasters didn't choose nor adjust a properly fitting harness container for it and when they pulled for the student pumpkin at the bottom because the pumpkin was unresponsive to multiple "pull" signals... the dear departed pumpkin skydiver fell from the harness and... well... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #18 March 30, 2006 they look like the russian guys who did the freefall orchestra, also the image is probably mirroredYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kimemerson 7 #19 March 30, 2006 QuoteNow what's really cool about that picture is that they are both wearing racers. could be tear drops or tracers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miami 0 #20 March 30, 2006 Naa...from the elongated mudflaps, the tapered d-ring reserve handle, the riser covers (both NOS type racers as well), the main pin protector flaps, the hip junctions, the chest strap hardware on the left instead of the right, even the little orange plastic hook knife on the left leg strap...plainly both racers.Miami Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miami 0 #21 March 30, 2006 Quote...also the image is probably mirrored I doubt it, as that would give our friend in the black and yellow a metal d-ring for a cutaway handle.Miami Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr2mk1g 10 #22 March 30, 2006 Quotethey look like the russian guys who did the freefall orchestra, 90% sure I saw this on a Russian website a year or so back... so that would make sense. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
labrys 0 #23 March 30, 2006 Quote90% sure I saw this on a Russian website a year or so back... so that would make sense. The website referenced in the photo is PolishOwned by Remi #? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mr2mk1g 10 #24 March 30, 2006 Ah, so it is. But that wasn't the site I first saw that shot. The site I saw it (which admittedly I now cannot say if it were Russian or Polish), was a DZ's own website and the shot was in their gallery. I belive there was another shot in the sequence with some guy jumping a broomstick too... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #25 March 30, 2006 QuoteQuoteIf I was going to exit and freefall with a large hunk of porcelain, I would sure want to wear a helmet. JR... what... you can't out-track a toilet!??! Well, most of the time I can. I was thinking more of a tumbling exit while trying to get that monster upright and stable. I'm visualizing that video of the guys who rode a car off the back end of a tailgate, and the car bucks and slides across the sky and almost creams the videoman. QuoteI'd bet its a real toilet... they probably got the crapper from the head at the DZ... My drop zone used to have a lot of those cheap plastic molded chairs to sit in, which were really comfortable around the campfire in the evening. Then someone broke one, and threw it into the fire. And it was discovered that they melt really cool on top of a fire, like a Salvador Dali painting. Most jumpers don't have a clue who Salvador Dali is, but they do know that watching a chair melt down into a blob is really cool. After that, in a matter of months, all the plastic chairs disappeared, as one after another they were sacrificed to the fire for entertainment. So now we have to stand because there are no more chairs. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
