MikeJD
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I think the songs that work best on videos are the ones where the lyrics don't relate to skydiving at all - if it's too literal it just ends up sounding corny. I'd just choose a track with the right kind of energy. Having said that, there's 'Powder Blue' by Elbow which, although I think it's actually about drug addiction, has a chorus that works spookily well... Bring that minute back We never get so close as when the sunward flight begins I share it all with you Powder blue Bring that minute back We never get so close to death Makes you so alive I share it all with you Powder blue It's a very low-tempo (but beautiful!) song, though. The tracks that still raise goosebumps for me are the ones Patrick Passe used on his early 'Travelling' skydiving vids - because they were out when I first started to jump. As well as the inevitable Tom Petty, there was lots of INXS on there, including 'Suicide Blonde', 'Not Enough Time' and 'The Stairs'.
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Because it looks good. If you can't shoot worth a dime, then you'd better at least look good. Because they can't see through those black lenses. But the black lenses look good with the white body armour.
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Are your friend's believers? If so, I think they might be pulling a fast one with that deal.
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"I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong."
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Yep, and for number twos there's always the waste basket. Although by the sound of it your room probably doesn't have a waste basket - just some gadget that vapourises whatever you put into it.
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I don't think it's quite as simple as that. The righteous (including the dead ones) are going to be whisked up to heaven tomorrow, but for the rest of us it'll only be the beginning of the end. There's a long period of tribulation to go through. I'd still recommend a nice pre-Rapture lunch tomorrow, though. Who knows what the Tribulation lunches are going go to be like?
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Funnily enough I studied English at college, and that really drove home the fact that language is a fluid thing - and in theory should be improving, as with any evolutionary process. So I was quite the liberal then. But I'm old and intolerant now.
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And this is different from skydiving how? Plenty of those in this sport.
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Budgie jumping..... Flea frying.
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If I had to stop, I probably wouldn't do any other sport for the rest of my days. You might say if I gave up skydiving, I'd die skiving.
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It's been several years since I stayed there, but I always found it just fine. It used to be cheaper than the Eloy Super 8, and you could get a better deal still by not having your room serviced every day.
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Personally I won't be partying. I'm going to lay off the booze on Saturday, because it'll be tough enough dealing with the Tribulation without a raging hangover.
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ad·dict (-dkt) tr.v. ad·dict·ed, ad·dict·ing, ad·dicts 1. To cause to become physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance: The thief was addicted to cocaine. 2. To occupy (oneself) with or involve (oneself) in something habitually or compulsively: The child was addicted to video games. Addictive is an adjective, while addicting is its participle form. If you say something like "BASE jumping is addicting," or "BASE jumping is addictive," both are correct. Also check out: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/addicting Wow, who knew? Not me, apparently. Thanks, pyrotech. I'm not going to back down completely, though. I think 'addicting' is at best redundant. 'Addictive' is a perfectly good word, and it sounds much nicer - at least to my ears.
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Hey, we've even had forest fires over here - although like everything else in the UK, they're pretty mild by comparison - more of a smoulder, really. We've had the sunniest spring in years - it's been beautiful - which doesn't help those in the rainy states, I know. Of course, everything has a downside. We've now got a summer drought to look forward to.
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So long as it's addictive. I can't stand this new 'word' addicting. Aarrrggh! Sorry, mildly off-topic but I just had to get that off my chest.
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Zip, then button. That way, you do the most important bit first. If you get distracted partway through and don't finish the procedure - hey, it can happen - then you're showing off less with an unbuttoned button than with an unzipped zip. Oh, and also I find if the button is already holding the two halves of the fly together then it can make it harder to locate the zip slider. As for those zipped underpants - those are just wrong. One of the best functions of underwear is to avoid getting skin trapped in the zip. If you have a zip on your underwear, you're asking for trouble.
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Yeah that not 100% those bloos suckers get in via the holes on top. A hat with no holes on the top?
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THERE'S PORN ON THE INTERNET!!!???? Yeah, but you have to fight your way through a lot of LOLCats to get to it.
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Surely that's the least harmful place to spank them.
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Nor could Shotgun, a couple of days ago.
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Wait, he gets his arm caught?! How about a SPOILER ALERT?! Pretty good movie; I had to give the filmmakers a hand. I'd give my right arm to be able to make a movie like that.
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Wait, he gets his arm caught?! How about a SPOILER ALERT?!
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Standing with friends on a summer evening, drinking a beer and watching the canopies land from the sunset load. Much better to have been on the second-to-last load, because by the time the last load gets back we've drunk all the beer .
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Will the MikeJD voodoo doll have its hand up or down? Because I just realised how tired mine was getting, and I've put it down again now.