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    Do you give tips if you do all the work yourself? I went to an all you can eat pizza place where they have the pizzas out buffet style, and you even got your own drinks, and took your trash to the trashcan by yourself, and when I went to pay, there was a section for tips on the recipt. WTF? They didn't do anything...
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    I packed on weekends for a year and I never made more than 200 dollars a day. Still 200 dollars a day is pretty damn nice... Chicks dig packers? When did this happen? Why wasn't I informed? In my experience, although packers are one of the most important people at the DZ, they are by far the most abused and the least appreciated. Oh, and orginal guy, I definitely feel your pain. I've got over 1000 pack jobs and there's not a single DZ in Florida that would hire me.
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    I'm a compulsive gear checker and handle toucher, but then I realized a little while ago that I would never actually pull my handles while on the ground or in the plane... so now I still touch my handles in the plane but on every solo skydive I do, I practice touching them in freefall, and I always touch them under canopy immediately after I open and turn to clear airspace. It's kind of funny, I was taught the two-hands-on-each-handle method of EPs but I decided to switch to the one hand on each handle method about 150 jumps ago, so I've been practicing that, but the first time I practiced touching my handles in freefall, about 40 jumps ago, I instinctively went to the two hands method.
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    Good job! I caught my first misrouted chest strap a couple days ago, I was doing a 2-way with a guy with 30 jumps, and I was able to catch it while we were at the mock-up, makes you feel pretty good.
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    The test says I'm paranoid, but am I really paranoid if people really are conspiring against me? Seriously, I know they are...
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    Majority? My entire family is Catholic and I can't really think of any Catholic I've ever met who dislike non-Catholics (at least for the reason being religion)... We even have a gay uncle who we're close to. Seems to me like there is more to this family not liking you than your religion. Just from your post I can tell that I probably wouldn't like you if I met you, but not because of your religion, because of your prejudice.
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    A guy asked a similar question to scott miller when he gave a short canopy control speech at Collegiates. He basically said he's rather see someone go to a same-sized eliptical than downsize.
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    I had an english teacher in high school who worked for a law firm for a while, his last name was Suomi (Sue-Me)
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    Jim Crouch, USPA's Director of Safety and Training, and a skydiver with a velocity 96 and 3500 jumps once told me that out of the 8 cutaways he's had, 7 of them were with traditional RSLs, and he's never had line twists on his reserve. The other cutaway was with a skyhook, and he had line twists on his reseve.
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    She's a scientologist too ... but I'd still hit it.
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    My asshole friends pied me for 200! Also, a good pieing story... A guy at my dropzone had 999 jumps, and was on the plane to make his 1000th but had to ride the plane down for some reason or another, I don't remember. They had a pie ready for him. He actually got injured in a non-skydiving-related accident and couldn't jump for a year. They KEPT the same pie in a refrigerator for a year, and when he made his 1000th a year later, they pied him with it. This guy also front-risered himself into the ground when he was a student because he thought the dive loops were toggles.
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    This didn't happen to me, but to someone in my club, a couple weeks ago. She had done 2 tandems and AFF 1-5 out of a cessna that only went to 12000 feet. She went down to Lake Wales to finish her AFF during collegiates, and exited the plane at 15000 feet, and when she got to 13000, she saw her altimeter said 1, thought she was at 1000 feet, and pulled!
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    I was at Skyventure Orlando about a week ago, and much to my surprise, it looked like the air actually was sucked into the chamber from the top, rather than blown in from the bottom. Is this correct? Is there any difference in the way the air feels from one that sucks air versus one that blows air? Also, anyone who could hook me up with a job there... you'd be my hero.
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    Monkey Versus Robot
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    How'd you all like the VT Man-Thong jump on New Year's Eve?
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    girls get even numbers, guys get odd numbers.
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    You and a member of the opposite sex (who already has their number) launch a 69 out of the plane, tumble around, and munch If your crotch isn't wet when you land, you didn't do it right. I got my Fallatio on my 69th jump. My Fallatio partner was Packaho. We were at Sebastian 1/2/05, we launched the 69 out of the Otter, tumbled for a while, then 6 people dove down to us and we did a 5 point 8 way. That's my favorite jump. I'll be at Z-hills for new year's if any females want to get their Fallatio number Fallatio was also the name of my school's (Virginia Tech) 4-way team for collegiates, but the officials wouldn't accept it, so they called us "No Name", but in Parachutist we are listed at "Fall"
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    I don't post more often about actual skydiving questions because there are too many skygods on the forums who always put down the little people. Now any time I actually have a question, I just PM someone who I know is nice.
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    "Based on the miracle of compounding interest, money can grow at an exponential rate when earning interest on itself. For example, by investing $1 today at 10 percent, that compounds to $1.10 next year. To put it in perspective, if that earned interest reinvests itself, that $1 today will amount to $117.39 in 50 years. No wonder Ben Franklin called compounding interest the "eighth wonder of the world." Don't forget you have to take into account inflation. If the annual inflation rate is 3%, then 117 dollars in 50 years is really only worth about 27 dollars. (I think I did that math right )
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    haha I know what you mean. I had line twists on my 3rd, 4th, and 5th AFF. On my 6th jump, I didn't, and thought "Well this is boring".
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    Ohhh I like this thread! People on my club skydiving listserv get mad at me for posting too many weird pictures. Picture 1. A sad, crying clown in an iron lung. Picture 2. I'm actually not really sure what is going on but it's pretty weird. Picture 3. A girl's first lesbian experience. (SFW) Picture 4. How to transport a cat. Picture 5. Caution : Handicapped man being eaten by alligator at bottom of hill. I've got plenty more.
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    so how do they explain that there is still gravity?
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    Jim Crouch will do a 5 jump canopy control course for 75 dollars + jumps
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    Gremlins Best. Movie. Ever.
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    I sold my car to buy camera equipment I've also sold gold and platinum bullion, computer chips, and i'm going to sell my pool cue and stamp collection in the next few months.