peacefuljeffrey

-Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Because the WSOP appeals to a lot of fat, lard-assed lazy shitheads who fill themselves full of beer and cheetos in front of the t.v. who would prefer to never think again that there is an active world out there with fun things to achieve if you work at them. What could be more appealing to a fat, lazy shitstain than the fantasy of using deceit to win a bunch of money from other people while sitting on one's ass with a net negative calorie burn? There are far more people like this in this counry than there are skydivers, or even people interested in skydiving. It's sad, but true. It may also be why the government hasn't put its filthy footprints ALL over skydiving as yet. Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Wait - didn't you just complain about Spiderman for tritium rubbish? What's more ridiculous than the notion of massive dragons living off the charcoal of life they just spent a billion joules of energy smoking? I KNOW! I was thinking, "Um, what's left in ASH that would sustain the dragons biologically? Didn't they just USE a lot of energy to burn the stuff they burned? Didn't they just release its chemical energy?" Then there were times when the dragons were starving, and they were eating their own to survive. So which is it? Do they eat ash, or do they eat fresh kills? I guess the writers had to have a justification for the evolution of the bi-chemical incendiary gland theory... I still liked the visuals in the movie a LOT. The dragon effects where actually quite good, even the last scene when Quinn kills the big male. Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

They always teach in school that George Washington Carver invented like hundreds of uses for the peanut. Now, unless he counted things like: - shoot peanuts at squirrels with a slingshot - shoot peanuts at birds with a slingshot - shoot peanuts at neighborhood kids with a slingshot - eat in a house - eat on a boat - eat on horseback - eat at the beach - fill sacks with shells for flotation - fill sacks with shells for impact absorption... I can't imagine what all peanuts can be used for. HUNDREDS of uses? Can anyone help with this list? Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Sorry, but sometimes you are completely off with the fairies…. It's a good thing. The fairies get a lot of loads up, and I never get bumped by a tandem. Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Why would a U.N. sanction change your view on whether the war was justified? It either was justified or it wasn't. Are you saying the deaths of 10,000 Iraqi's is OK as long as the UN approved? I really don't understand your thoughts on this. I think the war was justified. Whether the UN approved or not I'd still be consistent. EXACTLY. These people are making it sound like they would have supported action against Hussein as long as the UN said it was okay. Well, the UN was the body that issued the resolutions and sanctions against Hussein that he subsequently blew off, and all we did was go in after the UN negligently refused to back itself up. Its credibility is GONE. It set rules and then watched idly as they were flouted. But it's really preposterous that people have this double standard about the morality of the war. If enough countries said it was moral, then it would be moral?? Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well it's a good thing I have the right to speak my mind even when others might find it offensive. Try that in FRANCE. Oh, wait, Brigitte Bardot already did that -- and they CONVICTED her for it as a CRIME. Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Hogwash. I think that the abundance of absolutely hokey, discredited, pseudo-"evidence" out there, it is clear that there is no REAL evidence of it would have become widely known. Reminds me of James Randi, the illusionist-turned-debunker, who offers a bounty of a MILLION DOLLARS to anyone who comes forth with psychic ability that he cannot debunk. No takers. Imagine that. So about aliens, I think that if there are actually aliens, they either haven't turned up in our neck of the woods, or they have and don't even care about us. I sure as shit don't believe we've captured some and have them sequestered alive or dead somewhere in the desert (or anywhere else). And all these abduction stories are so much hooey also. It's so obvious that most people are either trying to cover for why they "didn't have they ass home whatchoo said you was gonna when you was gonna!" or they just like the attention they get from telling stories, and their stories lean quite heavily on accounts they've heard others tell. That would explain why everyone's aliens look sorta similar, and still different. What was this "undisputable evidence" that was presented to you? If it was not a ride in an alien craft, or a meeting with an alien creature, I am skeptical that it was "undisputable"... P.S. The statement "I want to believe" is prejudicial, and indicates that the person is not being objective, but is instead looking for reason to believe something instead of believing what there simply is evidence for believing. If you seated someone on a jury and they said they WANT to believe the story of the plaintiff who claims she was raped, that juror should be dismissed as biased, right? You would be better off with a juror who simply said, "I want to know what truth actually is," if what you were hoping to find was the truth. Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

So WHY are the producers of one of the most high-budget movies around stupid enough to let something so ridiculous get into the script?? Couldn't they have cited any number of other rarer, more exotic elements? Why be real specific about something that lots of people are apt to know is not nearly as rare as the character claims? Aren't there supposed to be continuity editors for this very purpose? I guess continuity editor is a position that they fill with those mob-connected no-show employees who get a paycheck despite never going to work... Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Okay, SpeedRacer... slowwwly... go baaaack... and reeeead... the paaaart... that said hellllp meeee think of other examples! Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

My favorite thing about Homer is that even though most of the time he's a complete dolt, every once in a while, he busts out with tha mad skills. To wit: - When he fights Bart's bigger brother, even though he does get his back broken over a fire hydrant, he pulls out the ninja moves with throwing-starfish and some wicked punches. - When he steals Lard Lad's "colossal donut," he uses a hook on a chain and he whips it up there through the hole on the first try, face grim with determination. Help me think of other examples.

Oh, come on, "sucked ass"? It wasn't that bad, was it? I thought it was kinda cool to see McConaughy (how the hell do you spell his name) all ripped and tattooed and bald. Neat look for him. I saw "The Wedding Planner" and he looked like a dork in that... Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Hey, that wasn't "just" a crossbow! It had a magnesium tipped C-4 charge! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Okay, I admit, I'm often looking for realism in fictional movies, but if I heard them right in Spiderman II, this is too much to let slide. Did they or did they not make TRITIUM the key element in Doctor Octopus' experiment? And did they or did they not say that there were only "25 pounds of it on the planet"? Wouldn't that make the tritium in watches and night sights, urm, pretty darned expensive? Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Decided to buy it because it was only ten bucks at Target. The "Archangels" are cool. They're jumpers who act as bait and trappers for dragons. There's a scene where they're jumping through clouds with a dragon in pursuit, and you can see they're tracking like mad. One guy goes in because he comes out of a cloud with about 200 feet to the rocky ground. Apart from being in a really long freefall for having jumped from 5,000', it's a pretty cool scene. Then there's another one for the pilots among us, where the main character is hiding from a dragon that has just burned the castle and is leaving. The dragon flies over some smouldering embers, and the embers actually spiral in wingtip vortices that come off the dragon's flapping wings. When I saw that, I went, "Cooool!" Decent, but underrated movie. What'd you all think of it? Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

C'mon, don't take my criticism to mean that I don't do just that. I happened to be on here while I was watching t.v. and saw the commercial for the first and so far only time. I was out jumping just this afternoon, actually. It was a REALLY good day for me. Came home and made a delicious meat loaf, too!

I don't know the Coke commercial, but after Point Break, did you get people thinking they'd be able to talk back and forth during RW? Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Hmm. Not being a TM, I was simply viewing the commercial about a day after someone at our DZ had been showing a student the fact that he would NOT be able to release the student while under canopy because the student's weight would keep him in the clips. That's what I was basing my criticism of the commercial on. The student was hanging in the harness along with the TM, and the TM just cut him away... I just think it's not good PR for people who may be a bit nervous about just that subject: accidentally falling from the nice instructor man who has the parachute. Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

What do I think? I think any Subaru that is sold for a non-Subaru had a fool for an owner! I'm an Impreza Outback wagon owner, myself. LOVE the thing! The only car I'd ever sell it to replace it with would be a WRX wagon. Well, enjoy your new ride(s). Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yeah, I always wear one. I've been wearing one daily since I was in about first grade. But I'm a little odd. I used to pretend my watch was like Space Ghost's power bands -- you know, those things he had on his wrists to fire laser blasts and stuff -- so I always wore my watch on my dominant hand, my right. Most righties wear a watch on the left (and that, I guess, is why the winding stem on most watches is on the right side). G-Shock, baby! P.S. I got one of those mini compasses for the band so that when I forget to note which runway we're using (our Caravan has no windows) I can just look at the compass! Blue skies, - Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

America entered WW2 when they got hold of secret information that Hitler was plotting against the US. Before, the US was quite hesitant to get involved. Um... Isn't that EXACTLY the criterion that people are now demanding of the U.S. before it goes to war with, say, Iraq? Isn't the huge common argument against the war in Iraq that we should not have gone to war there UNLESS it was a threat to us directly? First, the standard is "don't go to war unless threatened," and now that's the CRITICISM?! Honestly, I can't keep up with the left's vacillation and duplicity. Ya can't have it both ways, ya know. Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Facetiousness aside, Lott was neutral on the subject until he did research on it. Is it impossible to believe that someone could be on the fence about an issue, find out some things about it, and become convinced of one side or the other? Or is it only plausible if he had found ample reason to support gun control? They guy's research is PUBLISHED and PEER REVIEWED and his RESULTS HAVE BEEN DUPLICATED. You can't say that about any ANTI-gun research. Oh, wait, there's Michael Bellesiles... Oh, no, wait, he was thoroughly debunked, his Bancroft Prize for history revoked, and he lost his professorship at Emory University. Come on, please, if you feel the need to ridicule John Lott, why not trot out one of your favorite anti-gun champions? Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Alright, I left off the about the lawsuit -- I'm opposed to rampant, wanton litigiousness. Still, even though it's "just a commercial," it's gonna affect a lot of people who simply don't know that they're NOT accurately depicting a tandem rig. Isn't it possible that plenty of people who come out for tandems aren't quite sure they really want to do it? If people such as these come to believe that a few pins that can quickly be pulled by the TM can detach you and send you falling to your death, that might mean people unwilling to do it, who will never even come near enough to the DZ to learn that it can't happen that way. I just think it's stupid when "hollywood" (Madison Ave., whatever) depicts stuff that IS real in a way that it's NOT really done. I mean, if you have to twist a tandem skydive's technicals just to make the joke you want in your commercial, maybe you just shouldn't be using skydiving as the backdrop... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I just saw a "humorous" commercial for T-Mobile phone service. There were two skydivers and a tandem/passenger all hanging from some tall trees (bad spot?), and they were all arguing about who should call for help. None of them wanted to use their cellular phones because it was daytime and they didn't want to use their minutes before night. One guy points to the tandem passenger and says, "He should call!" The passenger says, "It's not seven o'clock yet! What do I look like, an idiot?!" So the tandem master pulls two "somethings" from the risers or harness above the passenger, and the guy releases from the TM's harness and falls what sounds like about two or three seconds to the ground! Um, yeah, maybe I'm taking this too seriously (I sometimes do) but you can't tell me that there won't be whuffos out there who will now believe they saw how it really works, and will believe that there is a "quick-release" snap to separate a tandem passenger from his TM... Personally, I think this SUCKS for skydiving's public image. Maybe we should sue. Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Cute! I like puns like that. Yes, that too was very important to me to see. There were a couple of times when it didn't seem that they were braced, like when he threw bank security guards. Most of the time, though, yeah, he was more or less braced. Should probably have been with at least two arms, but usually it seemed to be just one. I was just pleased with some of the ... disclosures he made to those around him. WHEW, what a weight off his chest! Blue skies, - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"