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Photographers caught Britney Spears driving down the highway with her 3 month old kid sitting in her lap! What an ass!

I dunno. How?

Oh man! These are good! I HAVE to use them! btw- These ARE brand new joke that no one has ever used before, right?

Oh oh! I got one! Why do you guys jump out of perfectly good airplanes? hahahahahahahaha!!

The link works for me, but the download won't work. Same with the original link.

You graduate high school when? I kid, I kid!

Yeah, I don't care anymore about seeing people wearing BDU pants as a functional use. The pants are actually quite durable and are good for alot of things, including jumping. But seeing someone wearing them in the mall or somewhere as fashion still bugs me for some reason. Maybe that sounds hypocritical, maybe it makes sense, just how I feel. I hate to see BDU tops worn with patches on them anywhere, even if you earned them. It was a uniform that was never meant to be worn in public unless you were "passing through" on duty. My earlier point was that it is possible to run into someone, in the security field especially, who might feel the same about BDUs worn as fashion and give you a hard time because of it. So, to clarify, my general recommendation and opinion is BDUs should be skipped as a fashion statement. Wearing them for working in them, hunting, or other fuctional purposes is ok. Never BDU tops as fashion, especially with patches on them. Just offering my point of view. Just my opinion. My guess is, for most people, if you were wearing BDUs as fashion and sat down on a plane next to a soldier who was wearing his/hers, you would feel a bit akward. There MUST be a reason why you would feel that way, so it is hard to deny that there is NOTHING special about the uniform.

Then maybe you could do something productive! I agree, it is alot of things rolled up into one!

Isn't that how you do it? It means: wouldn't you like to know, i am not saying, but i am happy : crappy weather, OH damn : if i did i am not telling, so there, so there.

Sounds like a great outfit for Saturday night How fast would they be eaten though? You wouldn't even make the dz, cuz you would have to pass my hotel room on your way!

Whoa, easy big fella! Not sure why you think I was even remotely worked up, or why you react quite like that to my post, but I was just replying to her post as to what POSSIBLE reaction she COULD have. Nothing more, nothing less. I even said I didn't think it was a big deal. Just mentioned that you could get the wrong guy at the wrong time with certain BDU's a fashion, but probably NOT the ones she is wearing. Now, how about YOU relax, and don't tell me what and when it might matter. It matters to some people, and I simply stated that. That's all. When you watch friends die in that uniform that is sported at times for fashion, it can have a different effect on you.

Hog tyin, dippin or lickin?

Well I'll be hog-tied, dipped in chocolate and licked clean, that's awesome!

Don't care about the Village People slot. I want to be part of the Brokeback Gay Cowboy Craze!

What if we both dress up like cowboys?

Whatever dude. Quit being an ass.

And I assumed you knew this post was about the lines they put on a Velocity or crossbraced canopy, as in the original post. I also assumed that you would understand that I wasn't talking about a Crossfire when comparing other types of canopies with DIFFERENT types of lines. I understand that a Crossfire has vectran. If you need me to be more clear, I am talking about VECTRAN lines as opposed to other linesets typically used on non-high performance canopies. Yes, I think HMA will outlast vectran. But not possitive.

If they are both vectran, they wouldn't. If one had HMA, they are two different animals.

I understand that they are "in fashion" but being a veteran myself, I never really liked to see people wearing what I wore for a uniform as fashion. And I can only assume, if I felt that way, you may run the risk of catching someone in a bad mood who feels the same. It's probably no big deal. I am just giving a worst case scenerio.

With those colors, I would say you should be fine. But, as a rule, I think BDU's should not be for fashion. Especially nowadays and at airports.

It is more likely that you would break a line on opening. However, opening can also just cause damage enough to a line so that it could break at any point of the descent. Having a vectran line break at the wrong time could be devistating. Like I said above, part of the reason you don't hear of it more often is because people change their linsets more often with vectran because of the consequences in breaking one. Pushing it and getting the most jumps you can on a lineset is never a good idea, in my opinion. It just isn't worth it.

Really? You don't? I answered that for you in my first post. Vectran does not stretch or shrink like other lines do. Part of the life a line set is it's ability to "put up with" the constant abuse. As a line wears and gets older, it's ability to stretch and shrink will let it last longer, but it will also allow it to change shape and length, thus causing trim issues. Vectran will not do this NEARLY as much, so as it wears, it loses it's abiltiy to "adapt," thus just breaking instead of wearing. Granted, you can probably push them and get 1,000 jumps out of them, but having a line break on a small crossbraced canopy is a much bigger deal than others. Personally, I don't see the need to push it. Part of the reason you don't hear of vectran lines breaking is because people change them more regularly. It is also why you hear of people breaking micro lines all the time, because they keep the lineset for a much longer time. Fortunately, it is usually not a huge deal when you break one.

I think you did a pretty good job. I feel the same way as much of what you wrote.

So, it's just about the money for you? None of these choices fit at all? That is fine if it's the case, I certainly can respect that, but that is why I said choose the one that BEST fits.