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LOL. This is funny. It reminds me of this past Super Bowl. I got back from a day of skydiving, spoke with my brother on the phone, and he asked me how I liked the Patriots kicking ass and I said, "The Super Bowl was today?" Same deal. "The Academy Awards were today?" That's what I thought when I saw this thread! -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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Thanks! On this new quote, I have to say it sounds familiar, but I can't place it. Is it not from the same movie? Seems along similar lines since whatsisname could see in the dark... I need another hint. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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One incident in a 35 year period might indeed be called rare, but that does nothing to diminish the fact that one incident of a certain nature is all it might take. It could be a car accident of a severity that is survivable if a seatbelt is worn, but fatal without one. The rarity of such an occurrence is not a valid argument against protecting oneself from such an eventuality. Nor is it particularly wise, in my opinion, to by choice leave oneself dependent upon some deus ex machina to deliver one from harm's way. That is what people are essentially doing when they say, "Well, sure I could be attacked by a criminal, but hopefully it won't happen and if it does hopefully someone or something will coincidentally save me..." -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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I read the first two Harry Potter books and I was not terribly impressed. That major thing that bothered me is that it seemed to lean heavily on the "wizard school" idea which, to me, belongs to Ursula K. LeGuin, who did it best with the "Earthsea" series. I just was at a Barnes & Noble tonight browsing, and at the register my jaw dropped, because on the back wall was The Best of John Bellairs, who wrote a childhood favorite of mine called The House with a Clock in its Walls. He wrote witch/wizard spooky stuff for kids. I'm excited to start reading this book tonight in bed.
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Movie:? -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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Since no one's got it yet....here's your answer: Raw Deal Here's another set to stump you (same flick): *screaming* "Don't touch it! Don't touch it! Don't you touch it! Don't you touch that handle!!" "I'm not your captain." I'm pretty sure that's Pitch Black. And I'm pretty sure that if I'm right, that makes me gooood, 'cause that quote's pret-ty fuckin' obscure! -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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What other means of defense do you have? 1) My Brain to scope out the situation before I get out of the car. 2) 2 Dogs total weight 200#'s that are with us most of the time, including bed. 3) Wife carries pepper spray 4) Run like hell I prefer not to have the police or courts second guessing me if I shoot someone. Excessive force, etc. If I win in court my lawyer wins if I lose in court my lawyer wins. I'm guessing if there's a total breakdown of law and order there will be a gradual escalation of violence which will give us time to get our toys ready to protect our property from the bad people. R.I.P. I always get a kick out of people who think their dog is going to be the weapon they use defensively against an attacker, or more specifically that the dog will somehow swoop in just between the time when a response with deadly physical force would be justified against an attacker, and when that attacker has already done his damage. What makes you think that if you sicced your dogs on someone at the same time you would otherwise have shot him, that you won't answer for that legally (with the help of your apparently apathetic lawyer)? And I wonder if you mean a situation like in Los Angeles during the 1991 riots, when people who decided they needed a gun for protection went to the shops to find out that even honest, law-abiding citizens would have to wait FIFTEEN DAYS for purchase. Because if the truth be told, that was not nearly "a total breakdown of law and order," and clearly people who needed guns were not able to obtain them, and would have been pretty screwed, had things really gone utterly to shit. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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To suggest that there is anything of substance worth considering in what Dr. Brothers said is the height of inanity. It was a puerile, simplistic, irrational and invalid analysis of the woman's husband's "problem." The woman probably has, in pairs of shoes, double the number guns her husband has, but he's not writing to Dr. Brothers out of concern that she owns too many shoes and may be compensating for having too loose a vagina. Once again someone attempts to demonstrate (unsuccessfully) that John's penchant for posting about guns in the part of the site specifically NOT reserved for skydiving discussion is somehow abnormal. Have you seen the number of idiotic postings about things like "boobies" or "kittens" or drunkenness? What makes you think that because John posts non-skydiving material in the non-skydiving material section of the website that there's a big story there?? I thought it funny that John was called hypocritical for pointing out that b1jercat has made a habit recently of popping into the gun threads simply to make sure we know he doesn't care about the gun threads. How did sarcastically thanking b1jercat for his input make John a hypocrite, Quade? -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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That was constructive! - Jim It's becoming clear to me that b1jercat simply likes to pop his head into gun-related threads to simply alert us all that he cares enough to tell us he doesn't care. b1jercat, why the fuck do you even come in and post, if you truly care so little about these topics? Do you post in EVERY thread, informing us of either your intense concern with the subject, or, "This one goes into my category of who give a shit."? I mean, tell me you don't single out the gun threads to tell us that it's not worth giving a shit... -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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OMFG this one really comes off as idiotic!! HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY IMPLY THAT COLUMBINES HAPPEN BECAUSE 1-INCH PLASTIC G.I. JOE GUNS GET BROUGHT TO SCHOOL!? I hope you're joking, but based on the context of your other posts, and calling John's topic choice "bullshit," I think it's far more likely that you're just thinking with the brown material that's stuffed into your colon. "How many Columbines..."?! IT WAS A FUCKING ONE-INCH PLASTIC TOY GUN! Are you really suggesting that such toys are "the camel getting its nose into the tent"?! -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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The point is, the schools think it is their prerogative to teach our children THEIR viewpoint on social and political things like gun ownership. THEY don't like the idea of kids playing in those aggressive, boy-type ways. They'd rather the boys joined the girls in the playhouse and pretend they're cooking or using condoms. They not only discourage the kind of play that comes naturally to boys, they banish it and demean the boys who try to play this way. They tell us that guns have no place in society, and when we send our kids into their care for the day, to learn OBJECTIVE things, they get their heads filled with, "If mommy and daddy keep guns in the house, they don't love you because it's dangerous to keep guns in the house and they're risking you getting hurt or killed!" They send kids home with questions about whether daddy is not, after all, a good person because daddy likes guns and takes me to the shooting range, but guns are bad and people who own them are bad... It's sickening, but they're poisoning kids' minds against their own parents. I've read first-hand accounts of this very thing happening. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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I sure hope you're not speaking of this "no thought required" thing as a good thing... With you I never quite know... You seem to be making light of this, though, as though you're being an apologist for authorities who took THREE DAYS to "look at the case, decide it was an unfair situation and reverse their decision." What possible excuse can you make on their behalf for their failure to make a summary judgment in the child's favor as soon as the toy gun was discovered?! There is no excuse for the delay. Anyone with a brain should NEVER have even come close to suspending the boy for this kind of triviality. But I would remind people that kids have been suspended for making a CHICKEN FINGER into a "pow-pow!" play gun, and one kid was suspended for drawing a picture of his father, who serves in the army, dressed in his uniform with a gun and grenades on his LBE. Yes, we've reached the point in politically-correct anti-gun idiocy where even PICTURES are reason to punish children. The anti-gun educational establishment is seeking to indoctrinate kids with the notion that all guns are bad, period, end of story, no other way to see it. Even freedom of expression has gone out the window in deference to the hysteria that spews from anti-gun mush-heads. A backlash has to come sooner or later. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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No, all those factors do seem to play a part in /some/ people's desire to own guns, BUT she forgot one other vary important thing. We humans seem to have an inborn instinct to collect things, So with this urge, you can have a person who is by the current definition perfectly adjusted, and who just chose guns as their choice of collector's item. -Blind The husband of that woman who wrote to Dr. Brothers should ask his wife how many pairs of fuckin' SHOES she has, and why she needs so goddamned many. Perhaps when she was a child she was forced to walk barefoot across a hot asphalt parking lot strewn with thumbtacks? That Brothers is a moron if that's the "reasoning" behind gun ownership that she comes up with. I have neither an inferiority complex nor was I bullied nor am I inadequate in the male-sexuality department (except maybe for frequency ). I own guns for protection, for defense against tyranny, and because the things are so damned cool -- works of engineering and art that are very nearly incomparable. If this husband were really owning guns because of some mental complex, and needed to fend off those "bullied" feelings, that would not explain the drive to have many guns. All you can even hold and use at a given time is two, after all. Anti-gun people often have mindlessly simplistic views on guns, gun ownership and gun owners. This comes as no surprise to me. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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Like I need another hobby... but... Judging from how much I enjoy internet chatting with people so distant -- I guess I just like communications... I think I might like to get a bit into this radio stuff. First, what does "HAM" mean?? I've wondered that for decades. Second, please post or PM what one has to do to get a start in this kind of radio hobby. What must one buy, and know, to do it? It seems fascinating. I taught myself Morse code for the letters in the alphabet years ago, and I still could recite them, but I never did gain any proficiency at receiving it. Is there any kind of common conventional way to train to send and receive Morse code? Is there even a computer tutorial program for it? Thanks. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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Post a picture you took, a favorite picture
peacefuljeffrey replied to Slowfaller's topic in The Bonfire
She was probably just a terrified whuffo! -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" -
Post a picture you took, a favorite picture
peacefuljeffrey replied to Slowfaller's topic in The Bonfire
This little one was living in my fern on the patio. I discovered it one day when I went and watered the plant -- startled, it jumped out and landed on the ground. The next day when I watered, it jumped out and landed on a patio chair. This last time, it just flinched, and jumped up from the soil in the plant (which was hanging from an awning) to a higher branch, but didn't actually go airborne. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" -
Yep, now I have the craving, too. I liked F&C when I was in London for a semester and you were served them in a paper cone. Then you'd drown them in malt vinegar, which would be pooled at the bottom of the cone and would saturate the last few "chips." MMMMmmmm! Of course, now I like red wine vinegar just as much for potatoes. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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Work late into night Wake as early as I can Go and jump jump jump! -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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Some people are ass hats. Would it be so friggin' hard for him to date Rosy Palms when his girlfriend's not around? Oh, the only way he can get those necessary rocks off is to put his meat in someone else's fridge? -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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My hat was used in the filming of the improptu porno that the Bang Brothers did at SD: America PB a couple years back. -Blind Is it a good porno? Where can I get a copy? I answered "No." The reasons have already been stated. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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would you Sue the canopy manufacturer
peacefuljeffrey replied to Tinkerbelle's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
No, that wouldn't be a "good" lawyer; that would be a "scumbag" lawyer, the kind who wants to encourage you to reneg on all the stuff you signed acknowledging that skydiving has inherent risks, and that these include injury, dismemberment and death. I would not sue, because I have agreed to not sue. I don't necessarily feel I agree with the part where you say you won't sue EVEN IF there is OUTRIGHT NEGLIGENCE, but barring malice or negligence, I think that the skydiver assumes risk by taking part in the sport. As has been said, you can make lots of canopies open hard. Who could say after the fact, for sure, that the slider had been positioned correctly for a soft opening? Even on "known" hard openers, I'll bet there are things that can be done to get them to open more gently. This kind of thing is a user's responsibility -- to know the REPUTATION of the equipment before it is purchased and jumped, and also to know how to pack and use the equipment to best effect. Suing a canopy manufacturer when they did not make an objectively defective product is bullshit, like suing a gun company because someone used their product to commit murder, which could not be stopped by the manufacturer of the gun. Once the product leaves the factory in a serviceable state, it is out of the manufacturer's control and responsibility. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" -
Nude skydive pictures
peacefuljeffrey replied to skydived19006's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Are they the kind with the individual toesies? -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" -
Anyone tried hypnotherapy to break a bad habit?
peacefuljeffrey replied to kelel01's topic in The Bonfire
I've been afraid to undergo hypnotherapy ever since Mr. Burns hired that hypnotist to help the power plant's softball team and that pro baseball player ended up thinking he was a chicken! Not meee, babe! -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" -
So it sounds as though you really liked it. What is the reason that compels you to now eschew it. (As opposed to "chew" it...) -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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Stuck on an Island with only one Cd...which one?
peacefuljeffrey replied to velvet's topic in The Bonfire
How the HELL did you type that A-E thingie?! -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"