Emma

I agree with you that it would be disgusting to have pilots/ instructors, or even just your skydiving mates that you jump with, doing so whilst 'under the effects' of E or coke or whatever. However, I do kind of object to your making this huge distinction between drugs of 'the old days' and today's scene. I just think it's a bit innaccurate. Pot has pretty much all the same effects you list above for e...so I think being all high (excuse the pun) and mighty about these 'modern' fuckups who do class A's is a bit hypocritical. For that matter, booze has killed a fuck load more people than E, coke or heroin, and I'm not too keen on skydiving with, or being flown by, someone under the influence (or hungover from) that, either. It's all poison, it's just which one you choose, IMHO. I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

Very well said Sudsy. I was thinking the same thing but...uh...not quite so eloquently.

God. That is horrific. Thanks for sharing! :)

Will - I'm sure you know *exactly* why I am agreeing with Clay on this one....But yes, it is kinda...spooky!

Very well put. I don't think it's something most people can understand. Not that I'm saying I do, it's just I've seen what it does to some supposed 'heros' of ours and it's a fucking tragedy. The psychological cost is born by our soldiers...the blame belongs to all of us.

uh...yeh. The terrifying thing is: these people wouldn't keep sending spam if it didn't work...Just a very small %, but it does. God, if I get another email asking me if I want to watch 'Buffy ride hard cock'......man.

Dunno about roller-caosetsr, but I did a 500 foot bungee a few days ago and am embarrassed to say I was really nervous! I didn't get the mind-fuck thing I think a non-jumper would get, but standing on that ledge.....it was a trip anyway - I really got a buzz out of it. Although, I have heard some skydivers make disparaging comments about bungees. Like...yeh, but it's not a skydive..which is true, but it was still fun :)

Who are you going with 3? Usual Spastics? Just wondering cuz Hinton's gonna be a different place for that small space of time...I may invite up some of my female whuffo friends who've been wanting to do AFF/ tandem for ages, that I've been too afraid to bring there....

I did one in the summer. It was pretty surreal and I have to say I didn't notice my bits, or anyone else's....although we did ban videos! Hate to think of those inverted tits! The canopy ride was fun too...especially when I remembered the DZ visitors on the ground with their binoculars to watch their tandem friends come down....not. Ew.

As I said, five-jump wonders. I am a sky-goddess of the highest order and therefore entitled to a little snobbery and big-dick-(clit, then) swinging, as well you know. Fool. ;)

Small ones, yes....

Bullshit. I totally agree with your point, Krosfyah. It really pisses me off when I hear people taking the piss out of whuffos AGAIN. NONE of us were BORN skydivers. There was a time when Olav Zipster did his first ever jump. Maybe you could say that there is a difference between people who haven't jumped, yet have the desire to do so, and 'true' whuffos who have no interest other than as a spectator; but whatever the distinction, I resent the implied superiority of skydivers (many of whom have only been in the sport 5 minutes and have a handful of jumps) that smirk when another 'stupid' question is asked. Yes, it can be funny when they ask if you can breathe in a cloud and stuff. But not everyone in life has the same experiences and not everyone has experienced this wonderful thing we have, freefall. I like to think skydivers are pretty cool people, but being snobby, superior and disdainful of people who don't jump not only does us a disservice, it's ignorant and WE miss out. The whuffos of today may well be the new skydivers of tomorrow. That is, as long as some ego-infested, jumped-up five-jump-wonder doesn't put them off totally by laughing at their questions. Yes, you skydive. Yes, you have conquered all instinct and fear. You have laughed in the face of gravity and tickled death's testicles! You must be some kind of god! No, you are not, so stop being so fucking impressed with yourself. I've said it before on here and I guess I'll say it again; jumping out of aeroplanes doesn't make you a better person. it just makes you someone who jumps out of aeroplanes. Get over it.

Not enough tits? I am yet to find a movie that shows enough PENISES for my liking... Oh yeh...but plenty of *dicks*, I guess you could say.... Anyway..what was wrong with 'Zulu'? Bloody marvellous if you ask me, we showed those darkies a thing or two, what?

Cool post Bill. Maybe I'll save it and show it to whuffos next time I have to listen to their mundane, brain-atrophying crap! Bless the pandas, but don't hope to understand them! Em

Yeh yeh yeh....homo. In yer fookin dreams. Did you actually manage to shag Brian or did he escape? ;)

Just one thing....anyone know who it was that I heard shagging LOUDLY in the ladies' loo at around midnight? The after-shag conversation was also overheard and went along the lines of, 'You know, I don't even know you and will probably never see you again' (a female voice). Class. E

A very funny night indeed with lots of little bits and pieces which, scarily, keep filtering back in....If anyone wants to enlighten me as to my activities between the hours of 10 and 2 I'd be most grateful..... Will - so you are alive? Laterzzzz dudes x

yes, believe it or not, NOT EVERYONE HAS sucked me at Hinton...or sussed me, either..although those who have sucked, have sussed...if you get what I mean.....

Wow...exceptionally cool... What's the one with the bright blue going into greeny-blue over the top? How do you do this stuff?...I love it

How amazing - you know my lover's pet name for me! Nice! Reminds me of the cheese-on-a-string thing I learned of at the DZ a while ago....(although have not indulged as yet..it takes more than a lump of cheddar to buy my love...)

Ew...that sounds scary....

Uh? 'MEDULA'? Does it have alcohol in it?

No, I can't shed any light on it because I wasn't on the jump...I was off doing my very own little 4-way. Er - and this person still JUMPS???? 'Scuse me, but what a twat! Never mind how expensive this shit is - what if he hadn't had an AAD? He's a walking dead man - THREE TIMES OVER??? You have got to be kidding me. Sorry, but some people should stick to golf. MM, your post implies that if it had been his own gear in the first place he wouldn't have let the AAD fire??? Wha?????? Should be banned by USPA.... My God...nope...let Darwin sort that one out... I won't go off on (any more of) a rant.....

Speculation, speculation.... Let's take the very scanty information we have, flesh it out with the meat of our assumptions and prejudices, and before long we're bound to have a far better story than the truth would ever provide.....