MikeJD
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I'm a pretty old-fashioned guy when it comes to relationships, and every aspect of infedility hits very hard. But I voted for the physical act, because to some extent you can't help forming emotional connections with people. You can stop yourself jumping into bed with them.
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Like this? That's pretty slick animation. Eat your heart out, Pixar!
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'Cow in Belgium is taught to jump over fences.' The cow will have the last laugh. I reckon it's all part of a cunning bovine escape plan.
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Apparently it's not an airship. It's a 'vertical global transportation solution'.
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YOU! ARE! AMERICAN!! Unless, that is, you actually are Irish.
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Biggest Badass of the Year Post Your Bum!!!!!!!!!!
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The good old basic dart shape that my dad taught me has always served me well. I like it because you're always folding exactly to an edge or a crease that you've already made - helps make the design consistent and perfectly symmetrical. There's too much unpredictability in James May's design for my liking - especially when it comes to making 'two tiny tears in each wing'. As for 'a dab of paper glue to hold the nose' - Glue? Sacrilege!
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badass (noun): A tough, aggressive, or uncooperative person. I reckon that definition opens the field right up.
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And the nominees are 'adventure athletes', and the poll is being run by a video-on-demand service for a European audience.
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Thanks for the story, especially as it obviously involves some difficult memories. On the other hand, during 99% of aircraft emergencies I'd hate to think that sort of option would be going through somebody's mind. I'm sure it'd be very unlikely to make a significant difference even if the crash was unavoidable, and it would likely kill any remaining chance of a recovery to normal flight.
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Pssssst... we don't all talk like that.
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Oh, I thought this was going to be a Tatooine thing.
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Comments on my Cookie G3 GoPro mount
MikeJD replied to okcorral's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
I'm wondering what would happen in the event of a faceplant landing. Sure, they're rare, but I've had one or two that would have broken a camera in that position and also - especially because I open my visor under canopy - possibly fired it (or little bits of it!) into my face. -
It's not 'the country' that decides whether rail services will run - it's the train companies. Slippery rail conditions (caused by our damp climate and lots of line-side foliage) already cost them an estimated £50 million a year. Meanwhile Heathrow is one of the busiest airports in the world, with planes landing at the rate of more than one per minute - hence the constant push for expansion. It is frustrating to have your travel disrupted, but sometimes there really is no viable alternative.
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Which is one of many good reasons always to carry your rig in a bag!
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Just to screw with you. Should have taken your rig. 'I'm not going back to Zurich. Let me out here.'
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I enjoyed listening to it. Nice playing, and she has a pleasant, natural voice - couple of tuning issues, but nothing that wouldn't be fixed by rehearsing it plenty of times before you go for a final take. One thing I'd say is, it sounded to me as though Beth was a bit uncomfortable with the low notes. Have you tried transposing it so she can use a higher register?
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Are you serious? Because in my experience the opposite is true. Not specific to the US, but I'd say English speakers in general are the most likely to subscribe to the raise-your-voice-and-talk-slowly-in-your-own-language school of communication abroad. We're lucky that so much English is spoken in foreign countries.
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We do condescension better than any other nation on Earth.
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Hehe. I liked number 4: 'That is a very brave proposal' = 'You are insane'. Lots of my work involves offshore colleagues these days, mainly in India. And although we are gradually learning each others' ways, that could do with a similar translation table.
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Or what they think will happen at the destination airport if they do survive. Local security is obviously slack enough that they can stow away, but I'd hope they wouldn't be able to exit Heathrow without proof that they were entering the country legally! It is very sad that people can be so desperate.
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experimental aircraft as jump ships?
MikeJD replied to mrpilotman's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
My early student jumps were all made from an experimental Cessna 182. As I recall they were using it to trial duct tape as a substitute for aluminium. -
You haven't seen the spotting at my dropzone.
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I'm going to cheat a little because I've never lived abroad, but I have spent periods staying with a French family and I think there are similarities - it's certainly very different from experiencing another country in normal tourist mode, where you're more likely to have compatriot company and the locals tend to make allowances for your foreignness. For me in those circumstances it was definitely the language - my schoolboy French was OK for basic communication, but it was exhausting trying to follow and take part in conversations between native speakers. I also found that taking away my mother tongue seemed to remove a huge chunk of my personality. Maybe it is a British thing, but for me language is a very subtle tool - especially when it comes to humour. The loss of all those little expressions and inflections made me feel socially inept, and after a few days I longed for a bit of banter with a fellow Brit.
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And even then a few seconds of visual spotting wouldn't have gone amiss!