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Jarhead has exactly ONE scene of sex in it, a flashback where Jake Gyllenhal is doing "homework" with his girlfriend - it cuts to show his bare ass jackhammering her up against a wall. not a big deal to me for a 15 year old to see. not even good jerkoff material as she is not seen naked per se (there is a brief shot of her tits but he would have to freezeframe it to get a good look and shes kinda flat chested - yep, i froze it myself). as others have said however, it is a pretty disturbing film with lots of violence. i dont have kids but if i did i would rather them watch sex than extreme realistic violence (whats more natural, fucking or blowing someones brains out?). just my opinion of course. if you know your kid, and he can handle it, i dont see that much of a problem. on the other hand, if he is a typical 15 year old, he will get bored with it way before anything gross or sexual happens. edit to add i forgot about the scene where this Marines wife sends him a tape and she is fucking the neighbor on it. still not exactly graphic sex IMO, but it is there. i say rent him The Road Warrior - there is a hinted rape, a tit shot, and TONS of bad ass car chases. ANY 15 year old would cream at the action in that flick.... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

had something similar happen to me not too long ago. i was coming in on final and started to flare, pretty much the same thing but not as hard a turn. i caught a thermal updraft with the left side of my canopy that caused a turn as i was flaring. i tried to compensate but ended up eating it. PLF is your best friend in those situations (hell, PLF is MY best friend in most of my "landings" ). glad you are just bruised up. it looked worse than it turned out. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

both brakes were stowed. we checked that when we recovered the canopy. i think AggieDave may be right and it was a tension knot or as you said the slider hung a grommet. i am definitely going to start double checking that my brakelines are untwisted and clean before packing now. thanks all for the replies. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

more food for thought. thanks Trae. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

hey thanks for the info Grant. i think we are looking at a tension knot from some PMs i have received. thanks all for speculating what it could have been. btw Grant thanks for the info on the bag grommets. i have a 4 grommet bag and have never missed one (but wouldnt say i never would). never even thought about what the results would be if someone skipped a grommet until you brought it up. thanks for something to seriously think about. blues, dan As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

unfortunately linetwists is not new to me. and i have kicked out of way more serious looking twists than these (like from the base of my neck to the slider one day when i got slammed). normally i wouldnt consider linetwist to be a malfunction since i fly a pretty big canopy, but these just wouldnt come out. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

thanks, but not a step-through. ran my lines 5 times as i suck at packing (never packed a mal though). very distinct 4 twists right in the center of my lines hanging up my slider. risers coming off my shoulders were perfectly straight. weird huh? As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

anyone??? anyone of you up-jumpers have any ideas how this mal hapened? or is it just one of those "shit happens" things? As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

had my first cutaway this weekend on jump #52, it was a malfunction i had never seen before. i deployed at around 4K on the last load of the day. when i looked up to do a controlability check, i had line twists. the risers were completely straight coming off my shoulders, but there were 4 complete twists in my lines midway between the top of the risers and the start of the cascades, and my slider was hung up in them. i tried to kick out of it, but i could only get about half a twist out before it snapped me back around. about 2.5K i pulled left and right and chopped it since i was flying away from the DZ and it was already pretty dark. reserve deployed with no problems and i PLFed right at the edge of the DZ. my question is, how the hell did i get 4 twists right in the center of my lines like that? i very likely was slightly unstable when i deployed (2nd jump on a new container and right before deployment i yanked on the chest strap - old container has a really wide strap, this one is really thin - stupid i know but it was kinda slapping me and i wanted to make sure; noobie thing i guess). but if the bag lifted off my back spinning shouldnt it have twisted my risers? found my main and freebag the next morning (too dark to look when i landed the reserve). anyone have any ideas? i wish i had pictures of it. edit to add as far as i could tell i had an on-heading opening, there was no spinning and the canopy was square and flying straight. but with those twists it was not safely landable so it had to go. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

never met you personally Shannon but you made me look forward to reading the Bonfire every day. you are the first death in this sport that has affected me personally and i didnt even know you. i guess that says something about the kind of person you were. BSBD As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

3:+1:-1 3 jumps, new container(and reserve), one good, one bad, one ugly #50 B license jump good on target landing, #51 bad downwind off landing, #52 UGLY twisted lines with the slider locked up half way, chop pretty orange reserve and on target landing PLF

strange strange strange...i live in the south and mostly the only people i see backing in to park are black. In the south many black people have a propensity towards big wide cars (cadillacs and the sort). i wonder if that has anything to do with it? As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

I gotta blow mud or I need to see a man about a mule its a southern thing i guess As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

a buddy of mine from work did a tandem, he threw up at around 1K under canopy and held it in his mouth until they landed - the TM was very appriciative of that As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

hey guys, there are two versions of Man Bites Dog, the unrated and the uncut. Lawrocket is talking about the Criterion DVD which is the uncut version - the rape scene was removed from the unrated version. and i see why - it really is so disturbing and brutal that it destroys the comedy (yeah okay im a sick twisted fuck so sue me) As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

thanks for the pics. ive been wanting to get to Namibia for a while now. since you shared yours, i will share mine (sorry dont know how to make it clicky so cut and paste if you want to see some pics of Afghanistan): http://www.polosbastards.com/artman/publish/afghanistan.shtml As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

in TN you can get any size bike you want, any CC with your learners permit for a bike. but most folks here dont bother, they just buy and ride. not like the dealership checks to see you have a motorcycle license.... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

the boyfriend looked just like the guy that was the dumbass friend in Shaun of the Dead....anyone know if that was actually him or not? As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

i am over the recommended WL for my jumps, 50 jumps at a 1.23:1 WL. i have been called all kinds of shit, DGIT, CWFGC etc (but only from folks on here who have never seen me fly - i bought what my S&TA recommended to me). i am also a conservative canopy pilot or so i thought. my last jump i turned downwind a bit late (about 750 AGL) and found myself having to flat turn to get into the wind (conscious decision, i knew i was way low for the turn). bottom line was i stood it up, but looking back i also scared myself quite a bit. if i had been in a box i would have been fucked. am i going to upsize? no. will i be a hell of a lot more conscious as to my altitude when getting ready to start my base leg (and my entire pattern for that matter)? youre damn right. lucky for me about the whole muscle memory thing - i have never been a toggle-monkey so i have no reflex to yank toggles down. edit to add i am jumping a Sabre 190, not planning to downsize before around 500 jumps or so (if then). i just dont want to upsize because of the expense (secondary) and because i am used to flying this canopy and i like it (primary). flame away. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

i have been on a load on our Cessna 195 where there was an observer. she sat on the floor next to the pilot, seatbelt on the entire ride (that i saw anyways, cant say for sure on the way down but assuming as the pilot is a safety nut in a good way), and wore a sport rig that she was instructed in the use of in case of an emergency. although she had no skydives, she was dating a skydiver so she had a little more general knowledge than the average whuffo... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

hehe....my dad was totally cool with it, but my mom swore up and down she would nevereverever come to the DZ if i was jumping. about a year later she did come out, and damned if mystepfather didnt do a tandem and then sign up for AFF now she has TWO skydivers to worry about seriously though, she chilled a bit around my 10th or so jump. i guess she figured if i had lived through it for 10 jumps the gear must usually work. one thing though - i have never bullshitted my folks about the dangers involved. it just wouldnt be fair. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

thats a pretty cool commercial... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

holy shit man. i live in Tennessee and my insurance is $80.00 a YEAR per bike - thats liability and uninsured motorist only. (yeah, thats eighty, not eight hundred). granted, i am riding an '82 Yamaha Virago 750 and an '82 Yamaha XS 850 but still... edit to add try Geico, they are who i used and they were really cool about the whole process. im thinking its the whole crotch rocket vibe that is sending your quote throught the roof - no need to buy one if youre not planning on going fucking fast. my 850 goes plenty fast for me, so if you really want to get back on two wheels you might try getting a quote for a non-cafe style bike and see if there is a big difference. just a thought... As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

damn...you really want to know? i travel internationally a LOT (hobby), lets see: dog (Mexico, Cambodia) cat (Cambodia) bat Cambodia) horse (Turkey) grasshopper (Thailand) assorted grubworms (usually fried) balut (duck embryo - China) blood soup (China) fish eyes (Thailand) chicken feet (in black bean curry) chicken livers (USA, Morocco, China - fucking nasty) pig face (i no longer eat pork but this was the whole face peeled off at the pig face restaraunt in China) scorpion (Thailand) tarantula (Cambodia) guinea pig (Peru) water snake (Cambodia) rattle snake (USA) mutton with french fries and mayonaise on pita bread (Afghanistan) pizza topped with hot dogs (Afghanistan) pizza topped with marijuana (Cambodia) iguana (Mexico) thousand year old egg (in China) fish sauce (in Vietnam) cobra wine (also in Vietnam - wine with a preserved Cobra embalmed in it) never had human flesh but have heard and read it tastes like pork - the cannibals of Papua New Guinea call it "Long Pig". As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...

i do but not to see if my rigger screwed up, but to practice EPs. in fact, our rigger usually asks us to put the rig on and pull the handles in sequence before he takes the rig for the repack. good for muscle memory i am told. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD...