peacefuljeffrey

Yeah, that's pretty damned bad. Dropzone was to movies what um... shit is to ... um, shit. Horribly bad movie. I haven't watched it since I started skydiving, but I remember even when I knew nothing about the sport that it had the most horrible blue-screen skydiving effects I had ever seen or could ever imagine. I'd like to watch it now once more to see what the boogie-atmosphere is depicted like. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I have a sweet, (now) well-behaved cat named Feather, and my girlfriend and I took in a new one, just under a year or so old, who was living stray on our block. She's a gorgeous siamese we named Wee Belle. Wee Belle has an atrophied, paralyzed front right leg. She can't feel anything from the elbow down. I said today that we should have named her Badump, because that's the sound she makes when she tromps through the house. She likes to pick fights with Feather, who is really about 80% bigger than she is, and far tougher. But her favorite piss-me-off trick is to jump up onto the counter and then climb up into the kitchen cabinets and walk among the soup cans, glasses and plates! Pisses me off. Sometimes I come home from work late at night and there are cans knocked out of the cabinets onto the counter and the floor! But then she comes into bed at night and cuddles up around my neck and I can't hold anything against her... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Okay, it says that if you hit EVERY FLAG IN THE ENTIRE GAME, you get a score of 1,000,000,000. Um, frankly I don't see how it's possible to do that. GRRRR! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I see you guys dressed in the height of fashion for your BASE excursions back then... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Please tell me that lady's ass has been "Photoshopped"! NO ONE could be THAT enormous!! That's like, "Can't-even-fuckin'-move" fat! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Actually studies show that countries with less harsh punishments have considerably less crime. Can you establish causation? Is it your assertion that BECAUSE they offer lighter punishments to their criminals, their criminals decide not to commit as much crime? I mean, WTF? Where else would you be trying to go with that? Aren't you trying to imply that if the U.S. would abolish the death penalty for murderers, and maybe make the standard sentence for murder, say, 8 measly years, our criminals would just go out, get jobs, and stop trying to rob, steal, rape and murder? Gimme a fuckin' break. Empathy for rapists and killers? What the FUCK, man? Aren't there, like, MILLIONS of people worth giving your empathy to before you WASTE it on the fuckin' dregs of the earth, who commit vicious crimes against innocent others? It's a modern, recent, idiotic premise, that the penal system (read that word again) should be about "rehabilitating" people whose personas are broken -- who think, for whatever reason, that they are the be-all and end-all, and everything they want, they should have, and that everyone is fair game for them to steal from and hurt, just to gratify themselves. Face it, we don't have the ability to take apart a human mind and diagnose and fix it with anything even remotely like a modicum of reliability. Not like we can find out what's wrong with a car engine and fix that. So in the meantime, all we can do is remove murdering scum from our midst. One way is prison (but we have this sick fascination with letting them out and saying, "Let's see if he's okay to be in society again; I mean, come on, what's the worst that can happen?"). Another way is executing them so that we KNOW we will NEVER be bothered or harmed by them again. I most certainly favor the latter. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That's tough talk, but what can you, I, or anyone we know actually DO to prevent our government from doing whatever the fuck it wants to -- no matter which asshole party is running it? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I've just seen this on the news and heard someone say something along the lines that .. ' If you've done nothing wrong, then you've got nothing to worry about...' Except for me that's exactly what we should be worried about - attitudes like that... (Oh so similar to 'Your either with us or against us' - crap). Thoughts...... That's exactly the type of moronic attitude that is being carefully cultivated, and is flourishing -- particularly in U.K., it seems, where people are told that it's GOOD to be under constant surveillance by the authorities, GOOD to be watched by a suspicious government, GOOD to be regarded as a criminal-waiting-for-an-opportunity. Your country is reaping what it's been sowing these long years. It's been disgusting us across the pond for a while now. Lie back and take it. It's the future you've all been agreeing to build. Every fucking time the argument has been made that government has the solution to your country's problems, and that rights have to be curtailed for safety's sake, it's been met with cheering in your society. At least in America, there is a core of people who say, "No fuckin' way!" and try to stand up against this kind of shit. Where's the resistance in U.K.? Who's gonna have the balls to tell the government that the people want their liberty back? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Well, that's a good way to get one of the moderators to ban you, actually. If you're just here to get acrimonious debates going, that's tantamount to trolling -- something that is frowned on. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

As usual, you miss the point completely. It's about making rules that cannot be complied with. Rules that govern what I'm sure you would agree is an activity that is not a "right" -- just like people say that driving is a "privilege," not a "right." I myself have always disagreed with that. Driving IS, to a large degree, a right -- which can be taken away if you transgress badly enough. But to claim that ordinary modern life, for a vast vast percentage of the population, does not involve being able to get from one place to another by automobile is ignorant. Likewise, once a person is trained and capable of flying an aircraft, it should be considered that person's RIGHT. And only a very compelling government need should be able to trump that right. On that count, I agree. It's bullshit to throw up instant TFRs around the country. It's almost as if they are hoping to catch pilots violating them. Now you might have a glimpse into what life is like for gun owners trying to maneuver through the bullshit cynical maze of gun regulations both state and federal. It's easy for good people in both situations to get ensnared when they truly weren't doing anything criminal in the philosophical (not strictly legal) sense. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Check your Subaru again. Are you sure that the scoop doesn't at least actually admit air into the engine compartment? It may not feed a turbocharger, but I thought that it at least fed air. My Subaru (2002 Impreza Outback wagon) does not have the hood scoop -- that's reserved for the WRX turbo version. I'm very pleased that my Subaru doesn't have a lot of froofy frilly bullshit like most American cars do -- stuff designed to fool you into thinking the car is better than it actually is. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Is this thread gonna get coherent, or should I not bother checkin' back? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

There -- fixed it for ya! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I'll never pay more than an animal shelter charges for a kitten, cat, dog, etc. I don't believe in paying breeders when there are so many animals in wire cages waiting for someone to love them. That's how I got my cat, Feather. It's how we got Baby, Dorian, CC, Paisley, Storm, all the cats my family's ever had. We got my girlfriend's cat, Wee Belle, by taking her off the street. She has a gimpy front right leg, but she's an adorable skinny Siamese mutt.

I really didn't find it all that scary. It's all told in retrospect, and mostly it's the girl grimacing and gnashing her teeth, and occasionally some computer-generated black ooze coming out of stuff. Not much. The Ring is MUCH scarier. So is The Grudge. Of course, those Japanese sicko horror movies are all really just the same story done over and over again, it seems to me. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Gonna line it with faux-fur? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I have to drive from West Palm Beach to Sebastian to pick up my reserve repack. It's 200 miles round-trip, and a shame to go all the way there and back with no jumps to show for it! So yeah, I plan to do 1-3 jumps, and screw the girlfriend's guilt trip; I already drove up there last week to pick it up -- and found no one was around, because it was windy as fuck and they'd called it a day by noon-thirty! So I drove 200 miles to not jump OR get my gear back! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

So, we should expect you late to dinner? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I have enjoyed Ron's posts far more than I ever enjoyed Alex's, though. I'm with you, about everything you said. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You didn't provide a poll answer that I could go with. He's been known to annoy the shit out of me, so I don't mind the absence. I've been the subject of bans, and had to weather them. He shouldn't be any different, but like me, he should be allowed back...eventually. I can't really say, "Make it permanent," since I got a reprieve, myself. I try to avoid hypocrisy when I can. -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You have to be fucking joking. He articulated that belief, and continued to be accredited?! I was getting novocaine AND nitrous oxide -- when they were still filling cavities in my BABY teeth! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You must have a dentist who doesn't administer nitrous oxide. GET one. Even if you have to pay out-of-pocket for it. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

That cat would look better with a racing stripe, maybe a hood-scoop... Naw, really, that thing is built for speed, man! Very pretty!

Yeah, but he said that after he won millions of dollars in civil lawsuits, after he got his ass beat for charging LAPD cops while high on drugs... Prior to that, I think, he was on welfare. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You mean like the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement? All you gotta do to join is to sing it the next time it comes around on the GEEtar... ...with feelin'. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"