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Everything is a joking matter. FYI I find it very difficult to believe that every major ship in every major navy in the world could suddenly deploy out to sea in a big hurry and only one small paper has one article on the subject Gimme a break dude __ My mighty steed

I hope you spoke to him afterwards and told him what he almost did. There arent any good reasons I can think of to pull in place after going low on a RW jump. __ My mighty steed

Thought about it, but if I plan for Saturday and the weather sucks I'm hosed :-) At Pepperell I have a lot more possible days and I can really only use one day of my trip for jumping. Jumptown is definitely on my list but this trip is a bit too tight! __ My mighty steed

I'm going to be hitting my home town (Gloucester, Mass) for a week starting on Sunday and thought I'd check out Pepperell while I'm home. Possible days are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Anyone gonna be around that could show a fellow dz.commer the ropes? __ My mighty steed

Sour cream, chives, and bacon bits We have baked beans in the USA. About a million different recipe's. They all suck __ My mighty steed

Bah! Sour grapes! I won and you know it! __ My mighty steed

Ha yerself. I run all my own servers at home. I have 359 GB of storage for my e-mail. I have a Sun E250 for my mail server. If 359 GB isnt enough I can always add more drives

It appears to be DNS related. Maybe someone is up to some kind of monkey business again. __ My mighty steed

Wouldnt pulling at 1000 ft put you at or below ground level when the caopy has fully inflated? Dem tandems dont stop on a dime. I was figuring that 6 feet under thing was fairly literal __ My mighty steed

1:5:0 dats all I gots to say __ My mighty steed

Not me bro

OK, you that voted 70 second, that seems bit unrealistic isnt it? Unless you are jumping fro 14,500 and opening at around 2500 feet? I dont know any dropzones that open that low for tandems. Please explain. __ My mighty steed

How many seconds of freefall do tandems get at your dropzone? __ My mighty steed

ugh. You actually find that word to be sexy??!? __ My mighty steed

I think you should get "Pong" __ My mighty steed

I dont question your motives at all. Not for a single second. Its your method that I was responding to. I'm merely wanted to point out that the tone of your post might have the exact opposite effect from that which you desired. Everyone with even a slightly sensitive ego (read as everyone on earth) is going to be immediately turned off to your message in the face of feeling like you are talking down to them. Thats the low time jumpers like myself. In a very general sense, you are absolutely correct. I'm not arguing with the reality of what you are talking about. Its real. It exists. Its a problem. But I dont think you can do anything about it by alienating the people you are trying to reach If you talk about us like we arent there, which is pretty much what you were doing, you are off to a bad start right away. When you then proceed to suggest various methods of dicipline that you would use on a small child, well, all motives aside, at this point I'd say that you have probably lost your target audience. Just my opinion. My jump numbers are low but my time on the earth is significant enough to have learned a thing or two about human nature __ My mighty steed

Dude, you must weigh 500 lbs with all the food you post about __ My mighty steed

Er...you cant hit them because they might just hand you your ass on a plate. Hows that for a good reason? We are mostly adults and the fact that we have little or no experience with skydiving doesnt mean we can be treated like errant children or that we should be. No offense Ron, I really like reading your posts. You have a lot to offer and I generally like your direct, no nonsense way of presenting you opinion. Truthfully I am not one to think that I know enough to offer anyone advise. I dont even like telling people that ASK me how to Pro-pack because maybe I dont do it exactly they way their instructor teaches and I dont want to cause any confusion. As your thread indicates, there are a lot of folks that are too young and inexperienced to know that they dont know anything. You wont be able to change that because its mostly a product of youth and has nothing to do with the number of jumps they have made. The young pretty much think they are immortal right up to the first time something really fucked up happens to them or someone they are close to. In the mean time, talking down to all people with less jumps than you have because of the way some young folks act looks pretty damned arrogant. Can I assume then that everyone with a few thousad jumps knows it all? I wont assume that about you or anyone else simply because your post sounded that way. BTW, the assumption that someone in the 100-300 jump range has nothing of value to offer is most likely incorrect as well. Some things are just common sense and are valid no matter how many jumps you have. Like how people react when you talk down to them for instance. Clearly your experience hasnt taught you anything in that department __ My mighty steed

I would think that they were not doing their jobs. Their job is to provide a safe environment to jump and learn. Permitting an idiot to do whatever they feel like is not in keeping with that goal. There is no way that one could allow a seriously unsafe jumper to do whatever they like without presenting some increased risk to everyone at the dz. This person should be asked politely to leave unless they accept basic guidelines for their own safety and the safety of others. Lets not even get into the example it sets to allow these things to continue unchecked. __ My mighty steed

NOOOOOOOO!!!!! __ My mighty steed

you forgot "all disco bands" under the "worst" category. Bee Gee's etc. Vomit. __ My mighty steed

Aluminum There hasnt been tin-foil for a LOOONG time. Its aluminum foil The photot would be better if there was a guy in the chair also covered with foil __ My mighty steed

Country music is an oxymoron __ My mighty steed

Why the hell not?? I do it all the time. Guess what? Get used to the fact that you are in this alone till you hook up some new jumping buddies at your DZ. Either way you will be driving there alone a lot. __ My mighty steed

Nope. Its nasty though I once went to a Bok Choi site and asked questions about skydiving __ My mighty steed