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Father O'Malley is on holiday with his family. On checking in at the hotel, he leans in to speak discreetly to the receptionist: "I just wanted to make sure - can you confirm that the pornography channel is disabled?" "No, you sick bastard," comes the outraged reply. "It's just regular porn."
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The Predator alien has never really appealed to me, for some reason. Man-in-suit syndrome, I guess. The Alien alien, that's what I call an alien - because it's more, you know, alien.
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It isn't?!
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The sheer range of cleansing products you can buy boggles the mind. They can't all be different. Can they? Having said that, I use body wash - any body wash. The trouble with bar soap is: 1) It makes a mess wherever you leave it. 2) If it's a new, big bar it hurts when it slips out of your hand and lands on the top of your bare foot.
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'Never slaughter a chicken in front of a monkey'
MikeJD replied to wayneflorida's topic in The Bonfire
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'Never slaughter a chicken in front of a monkey'
MikeJD replied to wayneflorida's topic in The Bonfire
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Why am I still uncomfortable sitting by the door?
MikeJD replied to npgraphicdesign's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
We generally have the door closed from takeoff until just before exit - mainly because it typically isn't all that warm in the UK, and also I think because it reduces turbulence and so saves time and fuel. But of course some aircraft have no door at all, and the Britten-Norman Islander I used to jump as a student had a 'door' that was really just a fibreglass panel to cover the hole. We weren't allowed to close it below 1500 feet for fear that we wouldn't be able to open it again in the event of a crash landing and subsequent evacuation. I don't mind being near the door at all, but I wouldn't want to lean out of it close to the ground. I've seen camera flyers hang all the way out to film the underside of the plane on takeoff, to the point where they'd have fallen if not for their seat belts. Sooner them than me. -
I'll be a few thousand miles away, but just wanted to big up Tecumseh. I jumped there a few times in 2003 and loved it. Great DZ, lovely people. Of course it might have gone to crap since then, but I doubt it.
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That's a great find! Probably a good job Kevin's dad didn't have to do any work on the plumbing.
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You can tell how old it is by the fact that someone was able to post (on the first page) without being logged in!
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Our 8-way point lost her helmet on exit last year. It got hooked on the flap, or something - still don't quite understand it. Anyway, when we left it didn't - it stayed stuck to the outside of the plane. While the pilot was descending it blew back in, and we later recovered it from the back of the plane after it had landed. Years earlier, we'd been out at the hold and noticed something fluttering down to the ground a few yards away. Turned out it was the bit of paper on which the jumpmaster had been making notes on his students' exits. I think he was surprised to have that handed back to him!
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Furthest from the pit (peas) buys the teas. Also somewhat frowned on now - for some reason they don't seem to like everyone aiming for the same landing spot.
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Not 'Crazy'? 'In a world full of people, only some want to fly, Isn't that crazy?' My song is Jon Secada's 'Just Another Day'. Not a cool choice, but it was on constant play on the DZ radio in '92, when I was going through AFF - so it never fails to bring back those heady days.
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Aw, thanks Jeannie. I was afraid nobody liked it at all! Parts of this I've been kicking around for months, and it was only when I saw you'd revived the thread with some more of your own writing (which I also really like!) that I forced myself to knuckle down and finish it off. So thanks for the kick in the pants! I'm still not completely happy with it: - I think it's a bit too disjointed, thematically and rhythmically. - The word 'spit', while I think it's quite a good one to describe a jump plane disgorging its load, is ugly in this context. However I couldn't resist the rhyme!
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I wouldn't mock anyone for using the term 'soccer'. I do remember it from my English childhood, so it's no surprise that it isn't an American invention. But then having zero interest in the sport, I really don't care what people call it. I just wish they wouldn't talk about it so much.
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Spoilsport.
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No es Day?
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These things I carry with me: Flutter of fabric Thunder of engines Cool breeze Hot tarmac. These are the charms that get me through The grinding, ground-bound hours - And the days spent pinned By the pointless pull of the world. These are the arms that lift us up To the gleaming nimbus towers, To the endless wind, To the bright blue veil unfurled. The earth, and air, and us Transposed, transformed. The sun that baked the soil on which we crept Now fires the distant lakes And, flung through the propellor's gleaming arc, Lights up the walls of this, Our shared cocoon That soon will split And spit us into life. We exist but a minute, Yet we live a thousand times And the world we inhabit Is perfect. We were diluted, listless, a frown on every face. We are delivered, laughing, into gravity's embrace As a cold, bold shoulder of rolling cloud, Silent witness to our rebirth, Buoyed on a sea of pristine air, Draws a dark stain across the indifferent earth.
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Mr Keasler's account sounds like he's reading his lines from a movie script he thought up afterwards. He forgot to mention the part where he said, 'D'ya feel lucky, punk?'
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The M4 is a fine weapon, although I've recently switched to the SCAR-H. I have hundreds of kills with both. Oh, wait. We're not talking about MW2?
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Isn't it standard procedure to practice jumping a new camera setup solo before doing RW with it, or am I just a newbie who is regurgitating what I was told? To be fair, I am being a bit flippant. I've just got cynical lately, since so many people seem to want to take all their toys into freefall with them - you know, so they can listen to music/ film themselves with their iPhone/ phone their dog under canopy. I think the GoPro looks like a pretty cool invention, but I'm not convinced it's a good fit for every type of sport.
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Is that the line you're planning to use with GoPro's lawyers? I saw a guy jumping solo with one of those the other day. I did have to wonder why he'd want to introduce a snag hazard for no purpose whatsoever. To show wuffo's at home what he see's! Yep. "And this is me trying to unwrap the reserve line from around my camera mount..."
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Is that the line you're planning to use with GoPro's lawyers? I saw a guy jumping solo with one of those the other day. I did have to wonder why he'd want to introduce a snag hazard for no purpose whatsoever.
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If that's chivalrous behaviour, count me out.