Tinkerbelle

But colds go away in a week or two, cold sores scar you for life and would make me afraid to kiss people and go out in public if I ever got one. Sorry, just one of my pet peives, and was wondering how others felt. I used to kiss people hello, but one too many times I did and later saw remanance of sores only to have the person tell me, well Hell, it's almost gone! Now a days I always turn my cheek and insist my SO do as well!

With all the hello kissing on the DZ, isn't anyone afraid of catching herpes symplex cold sores? You know you can catch that quite easily even if the infected person does not have visible sores at the time, especially if your lips are cracked from the wind and the sun.

Oops you're right! Can you delete something already posted? But I was just going along with the general assumption that everyone know they have a reputation of hard openings. Sorry!

Wow, never heard that one before! Remind me never to sleep with you! I wouldn't attach my name to that one if you ever hope to get lucky on the DZ!

With all the hello kissing on the DZ, isn't anyone afraid of catching herpes symplex cold sores? You know you can catch that quite easily even if the infected person does not have visible sores at the time, especially if your lips are cracked from the wind and the sun.

Considering how many people have neck injuries from hard openings, as a follow up to the question about sueing DZs, what about sueing canpoy manufacturers for selling you inherently harmful equiptment that could lead to a life time of medical bills that could ruin you and your family financially, not to mention destroy your life, your happiness, and your future skydiving which would be intact if you had just selected a different canopy to begin with?

There is a guy in Reno, Clyde Blinco who operated a small, rag tag operation using old surplussed military gear tagged for destruction from the 70. They didn't even hold air any more, often tore in two but he just sewed them back up and patches them all the time along with the harness and container, and people came down like bricks. Also no altimeters, no goggles, no AADs, round reserves, harnesses he eye-balled and sewed together himself, and his teaching was hap hazard and brief at best. He had no current lisenses, He just had non lisences deralicks hold onto pilot chutes as the people left his rickety cessna 182 that had to be hand propped. Lots of people dies and were seriously injured and paralyzed. But because of his waiver and no difinitive FAA regulation of the sport, he got away with it and bragged that he had a lisense to kill, the lisence being the waiver. He has single handedly destroyed countless unsuspecting lives and families with his conscious negligence. What to do about someone out there like that? He needs to be in jail for what he has knowingly done to so many people!

You know there is one extremely contageous disease that is underappreciated around DZs in particular, but all to prevalent - herpes symplex on the mouth in the form of cold sores. You know that is transmittabe even if sores are not present! Yuck! I used to let people give me a hello kiss at the DZ, but anymore I always turn my head and kiss the cheek. I even insist my S.O. does not allow girls to kiss his mouth, it's just too dangerous! On > 1 occasion I have had people kiss me on the mouth only to notice afterwards that they did in fact have the remainance of a cold sore, often obscured by facial hair! They just say, well, it's been there a week already and is almost gone! Or Hell, it's just a cold sore, I get them all the time, everyone does! AAAHHHHH I don't and don't want them! That's not good enough! I don't want to ever get herpes cold sores on my face! People around the DZ ought to be more considerate of others and not share their disease! HIV is bad enough, but cold sores scar you for life like a scarlet letter, and you don't even have to be intimate with anyone to get them, therefore are much easier to catch!

Say, how do you get your name in green? Could I have mine in PURPLE? Is a moderator just like an enthousiest, only with more free time and obsessive tendancies?

One of my favorite things about the DZ is there are so many quick witted people all jacked up on adrenaline to banter with. It's like sharpening your mind on a scratching post!

Even if your fear of dying subsides a bit, it is quickly overtaken by the fear of brainlocking or fucking up on the skydive and looking bad! Now Ron, don't tell me you aren't afraid of fucking up either?! Get in or Go in!

Oh come on, If you don't get scared from time to time, either you're just not paying attention or you're not pushing your limits. Everyone gets scared, even those with 10s of thousands of jumps. Why even driving down the freeway if someone cuts you off of you pass someone and barely make it, you get that surge of adrenaline. Adrenaline is simply the body's chemical response to fight or flight which is stimulated by frear. You may identify it more as fun, but it's still fear! Get real, Dude, you're not so hard and emotionless, even with 3000 jumps, which is just a drop in the bucket!

What did you think about Mr. Clinton holding up all of LAX and the whole LA area for hours just to wait on the tarmac for some Hollywood stylist at 200$/hour to come give him a trim?

Tell us TK... What's it like having a neck fusion? Does it hurt? Any pain pills? Aren't you afraid of further herneations above and below the fusion? What exactly happened to your neck and what did they do? If this is not appropriate for this forum discussion please send me a Personal message. I have 2 herneated discs, C-4-5, 5-6. Had a foramenotomy to open foramen from pinched nerve, but they left in the herneations and a big bone spur. I have been having problems since my surgery. I have been told to fuse the whole mess, but I don't want to. Were you in pain before surgery? Did the surgery reduce the pain? Do you have any other pathology in there still? Carl had a foramenotomy, but they did it athroscopically, and he had a far better outcome than mine- they cut open the whole back of my neck. Do you have any trouble from paralysis and weakness and instability in the neck and shoulder area from devastation of muscles and nerves along your neck and shoulder area from the surgery? What did you do for PT?

Say, aren't you that guy who wrote the book "Skydiving with your pants on fire?"

Yes, I'm very old, but I still get carded for smokes and beer!

Young men are all too often into themselves and their own egos. They're too fast and too hard, forceful. By the time they get a little older they really know how to treat a lady and always put her first, hold doors open, and be more chivalrous and are definitely much more gentle. They don't expect as much as younger dudes and are therefore far more appreciative when you honor them and treat them well in return.

Lonely. How are you? Do I know you? Where are you from? You look familiar! You look over 50. Would you like to join my club I started, the SSS (Sexy Senior Skydivers)? I am afraid I probably won't live long enough to ever become one myself, but there are a number of men I know and love who are members already. I haven't yet figured how to register the club with the club registration board though, if there is such a thing?!

Nighty night Bobsled... I mean it this time! I'm going away! Too bad I ran out of my Xanax and can't get any more. Man that stuff worked great! WW3 could be going on and I just drifted right off to lalaland, that's in Florida just up the road from DeLand, by the way! The medic who gives me my pain pills has decided I should switch to Lorazepam, but it sucks! Doesn't put you out right away and it lingers on the next day like a bad hangover! Go find some Xanax, it is the best sleeping pill you can imagine, and it wears off in 3 hours, so you awaken refreshed and ready to go, once you take a hand full of perkoset to perk you up! Gee isn't skydiving great! It's kind of like bronco riding. Those guys get all smahed and are up doin' it again as soon as they recuperate. Everyone else thinks they're nuts, don't they ever learn? Nighty night!

Thanks, looks great! I have an even tricker question?... How do you turn the damned computer off?! That's more of a psychological conundrum me thinks!

Tada! Nothin' to it! Thanks for all your time and effort Bobsled! You're definitely my hero! Man, you can sure blow some serious time tinkering away here, huh! It's addictive, and I do have one of those suseptible personalities. Now I'm gonna have to start going to FA, (Forum's Annonymous)! Well, I'd best be off to beddie by. It's almost morning!

Thank you!

If I'm not careful I'm gonna make myself hot here in a minute just talking to myself (hot thread)! Then what would the neighbors think?!

My memory is full and things not working well... here we go, yet again... Just pretend this was the first time... Here is the one I want for my icon Me thinks I am losing my mind here!

oops it didn't take. What are you... NEW? Yes, I'm NEW! See, I can even talk to myself on this forum, don't even need all you other clowns! That is except you, bobsled. I need some help computing and exterminating. And here I thought I knew what I was doing, Silly aarrrggghhh, confounded wabbit!