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Oh, I was afraid something like this would happen. I wish I'd never started that damned thread.
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Don't you think those poor homeless people have enough problems without having to wrestle with those annoying little bottles? Seriously, good for you. But that reminds me of the time I passed a homeless guy on the street who asked me for money. Thinking he must be starving, I said I wouldn't give him any cash but he was welcome to one of the fruit scones I'd just bought. He said, 'No thanks. I don't like currants.'
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Fads and trends are just that. They're fun if you're into them, but they're hardly the important things in life. Whatever, you can't make yourself interested in the frivolous stuff, so why would you try? I think most people mature a lot during their early twenties - I remember visiting my old college just a couple of years after graduation and thinking how silly all the students seemed, even though I was probably just the same when I was there. I bet you'll find that the contemporaries you can't relate to now catch up with you - or even overtake you - in terms of 'age'. Oh, apart from the skydivers, of course.
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Don't get me started on hotel toiletries. Oops, too late! I hate 'em. A tiny little bottle that would give you about enough gel to wash one armpit, if only you could get said gel to come out of the tiny little hole in the neck. First thing I do if I'm working away from home is to go to the supermarket and buy toiletries for grown-ups.
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I used to love The Champions, the series made in the late 60s where the agents had special abilities including ESP. I think it was a British show, so I'm not sure how much airtime it got elsewhere. They're repeating it now on one of the digital channels. I hadn't seen it for many years and these days it looks, well, of its time. But watching it again does validate my boyhood crush on Alexandra Bastedo!
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Dependsh how well shu hides it. Quiet drunks on flights, I'm cool with (as long as they don't fall asleep on you and slobber on your clothes). Loud, aggressive drunks should be ejected on the basis of obnoxiousness as much as safety. Regardless of whether the plane has already taken off.
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I think it's serious and it needs to be contained, but am I worried it'll kill me? Nope - something will, but I reckon the chances are it won't be swine flu. In general people are pretty hopeless at assessing personal risk (and I'm no exception). Panic over virus epidemics/ pandemics is a good example. Fear of terrorist attack is another.
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Will sell my soul for a complete rig + Cypres.
MikeJD replied to npgraphicdesign's topic in The Bonfire
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788/788. Clean bill of health! For those of you missing posts, they're stuck in the same alternate universe as all the socks that have disappeared in the laundry over the years.
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OK, I'm completely off track here, no doubt. But we do have sheep on our dropzone, and llamas to 'look after' them. So I've never had to cut one away, but I've occasionally been in danger of a llama landing. And they definitely have a mean look that says [South American accent]'I kill you!'[/South American accent]
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No. No. No. Post: Between The Lines. Meaning: I have a superior intellect and perceive things in ways you can not hope to. Oh, God forbid. My intellect is dwarfed by some of the big brains on these forums. Now cynicism I've got plenty of. But no offence meant to anyone.
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Wow, that's pretty tragic even if she did ignore the warnings. But I can never understand why some people think they know better than those in charge of their safety. For instance, there are always passengers who insist on getting up and retrieving their baggage before the plane's stopped at the terminal. What part of the announcement do they think doesn't apply to them?
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Some common Bonfire thread themes, and how I interpret them.
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If you do take your rig along, you might want to secure your handles temporarily. Just in case anyone decides to pick it up by the silver one! I did a similar talk once and it went down really well. People are amazed to learn just how much of a sport it is, and it's a great opportunity to puncture some of the myths that the media puts out. Let us know how it went!
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I'm always a last-minuter too, but I had team training last weekend so if I hadn't got my membership sorted I'd have been very unpopular! I faxed my application to the BPA office and had my new membership card through the post within a couple of days - they're super efficient. Anyway, not to worry about the Easter weekend. Fingers crossed we've got a whole summer of good weather to look forward to.
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Friend of mine had a model AT-AT that walked, but it wasn't motorised - it used the same principle as those toy animals you can buy, pulled by a weight that you drape over the edge of the table. Genius!
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Hey, last weekend was nice and sunny. We jumped our little socks off in Oxford-shire.
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For the next time you need to get a song out of your head.
MikeJD replied to CSpenceFLY's topic in The Bonfire
Reading that article, I realised I did have a few lines of a song going around in my head, and now I think about it I probably do much of the time when I'm not actively listening to something else. Anybody else find the same thing? I think there are catchy tunes that get stuck there because of recent repetition, and others that have been there for years and are like a calming mantra or just a way to pass the time when there are no other distractions available. -
Wait. Did you say you've never had a cup of coffee?
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There were some great, and some awful, records around in the 80s. Certainly it was a more interesting time for music than it is at the moment. Funny how every decade gets its day though, isn't it? By the late 90s nearly everyone would have said that 80s music was the worst ever, but 10 years on the nostalgia effect kicks in! So now we have a load of shows about how great the 80s were, and loads of new bands showing the influence of that time. I have a bit of a thing against 'countdown' and 'list' shows, even though it doesn't stop me watching them
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Reading YouTube comments is a fast track to despair. I try not to do it any more, to save myself becoming any more of a misanthrope!
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Oh, that show is hilarious! None of the interviewees has put in a performance that can compete with James Lipton's fawning.
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OK, so the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle? No, wait...
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Nice. I think you get a good half hour more of daylight than we do in the south east of England - even in midsummer a 10pm lift would be a full-on night jump! We had some visiting jumpers from Scandinavia once - don't remember exactly where - who were talking about jumping at 1am at some times of the year. That's pretty cool, but a long time to wait for the beer light!
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I can beat that powered only by gravity.