MikeJD
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You are a very smart women, and I really love your outlook on life.
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Know what you mean, but I think it's just a combination of the unusual light and the artifacts you get round the edges of things with jpg compression. I'd love to see a bigger version. I wouldn't call jumping with dogs cruel, but it seems absurd to say they 'don't perceive height difference.' That wouldn't make much evolutionary sense, surely. Some dogs are terrified of heights.
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My exit weight's only about 180. Any chance I can be number 2001? Everyone could just shuffle up a bit. You won't even know I'm there.
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Lot of wheels on that thing. And you can see the family resemblance, can't you?
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I'm strictly a civvie, but I enjoyed that regardless.
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Encouraging teamwork has to be a good thing. Whenever I play MW2 online, there's no sense of co-operation at all. Everyone is just out to score as many points as possible. The only chat you tend to get is trash talk! It'd be nice to see if you can do better by working together. Maybe it's different if you're not playing with strangers.
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I am... CapnMadDog.
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I've never been a huge Halo fan. The original was impressive on the old Xbox back in the day when there was nothing else to touch it, but I don't think the sequels have kept pace with the other shooters that have come along since. I love the Modern Warfare games. I think they just ooze class. In MW2 on Xbox live, if connections to the host machine are too slow then it switches to a different host. It's a bit annoying having to pause mid-game for that process to complete, but it's much better than having to play through the whole game with ridiculous lag. Bad Company 2 sounds great - the only disappointment is that it's single player offline, whereas I liked playing through the MW2 Special Ops missions in split screen with a friend. If you're just co-operating online you don't get to share beer and pizza.
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Fixed it for you.
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Good on you for being cautious to begin with. Looking at your jump numbers vs time in the sport, you were obviously pretty active prior to your layoff - I'd say a year off isn't very long given that prior experience (lots of us don't jump for 6 months at a time over the winter). So yep, take it easy but I reckon it'll take you no time at all to feel current again.
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Let's not start the flame wars.
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The whole tone of that article is weird. It reads like a newspaper story written in the third person and then reworked as if she's telling it. "Admittedly, Tasha, 17 months, was quite old to still be breastfeeding... I'd split up with her dad, Ted Collins, 35... My mum, Jane, 62... I didn't tell my boyfriend of one month, Paul Murphy, 33". Bizarro, even before you consider the subject matter.
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Sorry - I'd like to hear it but I forgot to check when I got home. I can't access myspace from work.
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Be nice to think his 'death' was an elaborate hoax to bring about to bring about the overthrow of some foreign despot or something.
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Very nice Flash work. And I learned that the Dutch for tights (nylons) is 'damespanty', which for some reason pleased me very much.
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Psshh. You'll be telling us next that this is a 'purse'. And I've never even heard of this 'billfold' thingummy.
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It's not strange if she spends most of the time naked.
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Only problem with Empuria is the freak weather - there's been a lot of it in the past few years. The seafront web cam from a couple of days ago showed a lot of snow!
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93 year young Female Fighter Pilot, Returns to the Sky
MikeJD replied to skyrider's topic in The Bonfire
Yeah, it's hard to relate to how different attitudes were in the 40s. Reitsch is a fascinating figure - a brilliant, fearless, pioneering pilot but also a fanatical Nazi (or just a fervent patriot - hard to say which). Towards the end of the war she tried to persuade Hitler to let her lead a suicide glider squadron. If she'd had different loyalties, she might have been remembered as the ultimate aviatrix. -
93 year young Female Fighter Pilot, Returns to the Sky
MikeJD replied to skyrider's topic in The Bonfire
Yup. Do a search on the "Night witches of Staligrad" for starters -
93 year young Female Fighter Pilot, Returns to the Sky
MikeJD replied to skyrider's topic in The Bonfire
She'd need to have been born a lot later to fly in combat, I guess. Only the Soviets had female combat pilots in WW2, right? -
OK, you've scared me now. I'm either never drinking, or never sleeping, again.
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93 year young Female Fighter Pilot, Returns to the Sky
MikeJD replied to skyrider's topic in The Bonfire
Did ya check out her pictures? she will see 100 easy! I loved the 'then and now' shot - wished there'd been a bigger version. We have a funny way of thinking about young people and old people as somehow different beings, but nope - just the same lady, in the same pose, six or seven decades on. -
I think if there was any real danger then we'd know about it. Maybe if you slept on your arm for a week or something you could do some permanent damage. It's a bit creepy having no feeling though, isn't it? It's as if there's somebody else's disembodied limb in bed with you. And the only time you realise how much your arm actually weighs is when you have to pick it up with your other hand! Like Billy said, sleeping on both arms is a recipe for disaster. You have to squirm your way out of bed.