FrogNog

From the tasteless files: "How to put on yer underwear: yellow in front, brown in back, just like mama taught me." -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Yeah, they all look about as tall as the door! -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I prefer this one: There are 2 kinds of people in this world: 1. Those who masturbate, 2. And those with no arms. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I don't want the Astra because it's too easy to turn off. (At least that's what I think; it has a slide switch with a clear plastic cover, and that's it. Scares me.) Obviously, a Cypres that won't tell you it's turned on is just about as scary! I don't have an opinion on Vigial yet because I haven't seen one. Back to the original problem: I would calmly explain to my Cypres representative that I cannot accept a Cypres that fails to properly indicate that it is switched on and operational. Regardless of whether it is actually on, the lack of proper indication (and I'm assuming the manual says it's supposed to say "On" or whatever; I haven't actually played with one yet) is a confidence issue that I cannot overcome, and given the purpose of the device, the conditions under which I would need the device to actually engage (i.e. cut loop or die), and the price of the device, I would very much like them to take the unit back and see if they can fix it up, or swap it out for another one. I agree that their response to this problem seems to make no sense, but I think some gentle pressure to ensure they know that you have a problem and you would like them to do something simple and reasonable about it could make you and their other customers happy. But, yeah, sucks that they're not all "What? A customer is having an issue with our product? Find out everything, make it better, and see if anyone else has had this problem, immediately!" -=-=-=-=- Pull.

OK, interesting wreck story: My friend enters turn 1 twelve inches wide in his RX-7 on a rainy day. Entering wide means exiting wide. Abutting the turn exit is the dragstrip. He goes one tire-width onto the wet rubber-coated dragstrip and is very shortly not in the turn anymore, instead traveling straight toward a concrete wall. Which he hits dead on at 90 mph. He gets out of the car and develops a bruise on each collarbone from the top seat belts (2 of 5). Car's exo-frame has to be cut off at the firewall and replaced (along with body panels up front, of course) and then he's back in business. No headache from what I heard. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Except wingsuit. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Occasionally I like to swim slightly head-low (descending) with my arms swept back like in a track. I'm sure I look retarded to the other divers, but I don't care.

"Don't knock masturbation - it's sex with someone I love." -- Woody Allen -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I don't want to get into debating their logic, because I think there is a more important issue: a lifesaving "black box" needs to have a clear way to know it's turned on and good to go. Guessing it's on, or puzzling out that it must be on because it can't be off, or any other indirect indication is not good enough for something that is so opaque. (By opaque I mean you can't tell any other way that it's turned on and ready.) So I say if the Cypres 2 is supposed to say "ok status" when it's running properly, and you don't see exactly that, get it fixed until you do. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I saw a CRW dawg pack his rig once. He did tuck in all the rest of the canopy after he closed the container, though. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

But with no turbine or piston engine going, no rotating blades, and no downdraft. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Uh, isn't the horizon always at the same location - 90 degrees from straight down? Or are you saying you look at the horizon and see what you can see, or what features have moved above the horizon (like mountaintops)? -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Shit, forgot about that one, I was so wrapped up in posting the "scary" tandem... Yup, thats happened to me too. It sounds like it, then when we got down she had the correct flushing around her face and chest (lower cut top) that I'm about 90% sure as well. Damned if I'm going to let either of you 2 guys give my missus a tandem ride Don't be all jealous and protective just because you can't give her the goods. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

"spin my nipplenuts" "turn my crank" "yanky my wanky" (16 Candles) -=-=-=-=- Pull.

...but you forgot 'Spank my Monkey'... polish / rocket beat / meat jerkin' / gherkin shine / skin-soldier -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Even if that were true, is that the whole story? What about other types of murder? I consider murder with a knife or a club just as concerning as a firearm murder. I need to know the total number of murders (from which I will calculate the per capita murder rate) before I can say one is better than the other. It may be tempting to say that 11,000 is so much larger than a few hundred that obviously gun control works, etc. etc., but I'm a fan of doing math the long way - write out all the pertinent variables, document assumptions, indicate margins of error, and so on. Nothing personal, but this isn't what Michael Moore does; he's a filmmaker, not a statistician. Legitimate firearm crime (including murder) statistics for the US are available broken down by year/county/crime type from the FBI, I believe. This is what the statistician John R. Lott used in his work that resulted in the book "More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws". I would have to look in my copy to find out how representative that 11,000 number is. For Canadian numbers, good luck. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

OK, trying to drive the thread back toward the original idea of insulting someone for being stoopid... "fucktard" and "asshat" are pretty snazzy these days. I like explaining to people that they are so superlatively bad (in whatever way) that it makes my brain hurt. I delicately grab my skull while wincing and stooping sideways a bit for effect. And in high school my group of friends all used as a friendly stupidity insult the phrase "DuuUUUUUrrrrr!" -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Ah, the dreaded "Ball-under malfunction". -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I vote "No this individual should be allowed to do anything that they want." I say BillVon may act with impunity when on jump run. If he wants to moon the pilot, that's fine. If he goes "Woop!Woop!Woop!" and makes a retarded face as he stiff-walks out the door without checking the spot, that's great. If he's putting the last puffs in his blowup love-doll "tandem passenger" and wants you to wait until he's done, no problem; we all know BillVon has enough air to make it snappy, and you could always check the spot and ask for a go-around, politely explaining to the pilot over the rushing wind that you won't leave the plane once it goes three hundred feet past the edge of the baseball field. BillVon can do no wrong! -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I lost the heater in Fall. Returning from vacation on New Year's I found just the water heater dead. Got to the DZ the next day and explained that my water heater was dead, but jumping was more important than showering. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

Or medium gray, if that goes better with the mud in your area. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I should hope people with more experience than us would say "if I opened and saw a slow canopy with screwed up steering lines, picked at it for a few seconds then saw I had reached my decision altitude, I would not try a single other thing." -=-=-=-=- Pull.

* Before the door opens, breathe. * You are ultimately responsible for your own safety. Do not let yourself get hurt by being a sheep in the face of things that you don't understand and are scared of. * Periodic trips to the hanging harness could save your life. * Two tries. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

I bet - wingsuit openings with canopies hooked up backwards sound like real roller coasters. -=-=-=-=- Pull.

The answer here is surely "We don't know". We don't know what other people would do and think. We kind of know how many people fly wingsuits now, and that's about it. And why does it matter what % of other jumpers would think wingsuit flying is the best? Are you just really curious? I got thinking about it and realized I don't care how many other people think wingsuits are the bomb-diggity; I'm grateful it exists, I'm going to try it, I expect to love it, and it might be my favorite thing or I might prefer variety. -=-=-=-=- Pull.