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I've recently moved house and I've now got a new lodger - no idea if it's male or female; what kind of cat it is or even who it belongs to. There's no collar and it's fur is a little matted, but it's the friendliest little critter I've ever met... I've given it a little tuna from a can, but I've no idea what cats eat to be honest... I'm guessing not cucumber? It wanders quite happily in and out, doesn't complain about me smoking, chills infront of the telly and probably likes beer... i'm guessing it's male. Any advice? things to do / not to? Ideas on what kind of cat it is? Cheers Will

omelettes were made for cheese.... (and maybe a little black pepper). Little black salty eggs don't really appeal... oh.. and Spanish omelettes rock too

10 Oz of cavier in an omelette???? That would be grim!... ew.

Disorder | Rating Paranoid: Low Schizoid: Low Schizotypal: Low Antisocial: Low Borderline: Low Histrionic: Moderate Narcissistic: Low Avoidant: Low Dependent: Low Obsessive-Compulsive: Low heh.. Histrionic: the need to be the centre of attention LOOK AT ME DAMMIT!

Is the haiku back? I knew that there was something missing from my day.

19 quid to altitude at Langar? Is the website right? What height do you get there?

Snake, from the Simposons kindly donated one of his catchphrases as my name; the pic is a sample fabric from Da'Kine and the sig is a Strong Bad quote - obvious!

Hi all, just moved down to Coventry and it appears that Hinton is my new local DZ -

follow your dreams - you don't get that many opportunities and I'd rather be able to say "yeah, at least I tried..." rather than "I wonder what if..." Will

Pool and nicotine... the first releases the frustration, the second lowers the sex drive Or sleep - on a good night, all the hard work's done for ya

...and the world was crying out for video..... SHOW US THE SMITING!!!!!!!!!!!!

135 main, 140/150 reserve...

That's a nice piece of advice that I've never thought about - simple common sense, but somehow overlooked. I'll remember that from now on... Thanks Will

Don't forget to show her and the kids some nice BASE footage... that Track or Die one would probably go down well whuffos... can't live with 'em, can't li... Actually, nope... that's all I got.

children! Play nice back to topic: the sad fact is that there will always be people out there who are either: 1) to stupid to understand advice and need to have hard and fast rules or they'll just ignore help through lack of comprehension. 2) arrogant enough to believe 'new' rules really do apply to them... "I know no-one with 40 jumps has a VX79 before... but I'm different!" 3) seek advice until they hear what they want and then convince them selves that it was the only advice they'd got. People can justify why they were a special case to ignore advice until the cows come home... I know - I've done it - but it certainly took me a while to realise that there are no exceptions to playing the odds... my 2 pence

1) Avacado is lethal to Chaffinches... Followed by - 2) my parents still can't tell the difference after the replacement!

Hi Ian, good questions! I'm probably as guilty as some of this as any, so I'll try rationalise it (This may just be a stream of random thoughts, so I apologise in advance)... a couple of reasons I guess... none of them very good: Ego is a big one - after several thousand jumps, people know who you are and respect you; I guess we all crave that in a hierarchical sport such as ours. One way of getting noticed (not necessarily the same as getting respect) is to be the person pushing it the most either from being the fastest or the smallest or pulling the lowest... not cool. The second part of ego is another biggie - we've covered external recognition (the old addage - better to be noticed for being a wanker than not to be noticed at all), but this one is more internal. Remember when you first learnt to drive? Certainly most of the people I know say now that they used to drive too fast, and either an accident or a near miss has slowed them down - we used to think we were invincible and that we were better than everyone else - I honestly believe this translates into canopy downsizing.... a sense of self-invulnerability that leads us to moving too quickly... there are legal and insurance restrictions in place to stop a 17 year old new driver buying a supercar... not so in canopy sizing - we like to keep our independance within the sport and self regulate, but that only works if people have the discipline to accept preventative measures. Maybe legislation is the answer - I don't know. So, (perceptionally) looking good and feeling good has a big part in choosing a canopy too small - the third part, that I think has been covered, is probably self validation. Ask enough people and eventually you'll get the answer you want to hear, and then you can say: "well Suchandsuch said I could...." Like I said - no good reasons for ignoring good advice, just the way humans work... There are probably loads more subtle reasons, but I need to get back to work ... Edit: Just read Romericus' answer: "The reason for it was because that I aspired to be like those I admired..." another very true reason....

I don't get it? Why are you making this list? Are you making a comparative list for those people who say: "I love my Sabre" "I've never been spanked by it" etc...

Well, there's a few problems with this. 1. They weren't in a 1967 or 1968 Dodge Charger. 2. They didn't have an air horn that plays "Dixie" 3. They didn't yell "Yee-haw" and have Waylen Jennings do a voice over as it paused for a commercial. 4. they weren't being chased by the police who screw it up and jump into a mud hole...

it's from the april fool main page here's one... " and he got me out of some pretty tight pants... but that only happened once "

Oh HELL YES!! That and the "Guitar" are amongst my favorites! Blue skies Ian [puts hand up shyly] I'd just like to say that my trogdor t-shirt rocks... thank you... [sits back down] And Japanese Cartoon is easily up there with the best episodes, but as SB says: | | V

lmao... 33% of people are too scared to talk to sunny!!! too funny...

I'm using it at the moment - no problems yet

there was a really good article written by John LeBlanc on how to do them, i think on rec dot... as I remember, he says you need a huge wingloading and loads of speed to avoid falling into your canopy, but it is a barrel roll... oh, and needless to say, he didn't recommend people doing them Edit: found a cut n paste of it... Here

go to skydivingmovies.com, look at the landing and swooping section, and there are a few short films at the top under 'Barrel Rolls' (unsurprisingly)... then shake your head, and go "you shouldn't be able to do that " or at least that's what I did