nacmacfeegle

"They do not appear to give a rat's ass about the people off Iraq." Actually, IMHO, the French don't give a rat's ass about anything other than France. "My point is that some Europeans seem to forget or take for granted that we have paid in blood for many countries' freedom." Not all of us, Trent my friend, not all of us. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"All the science fiction stuff by Iain M. Banks. Scottish guy like NacMac. You'll end up mispelling words like colour, and flavour and stuff, though." Corrupting your spelling is a small price to pay for access to such a far reaching imagination.

I just had a really strange vision of The Four Horsemen of the Apostrophe, riding out as the world comes to an end.......It's been one of those days..

Okay Justin, I'll give you the historical point, and bow to your superior Googling prowess....My bad, ISO is administered by the Swiss. "the United States solidified its commitment to the development of the internationally recognized metric system by becoming one of the original seventeen signatory nations to the Treaty of the Meter." So what happened? Why did you guys stick with the stupid English (imperial) system? And why are your imperial measures eg gallons different from ours? "you will be in for detention" Will I get to be on TV? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"So Nac, I take it you do not suffer from office equipment envy?" My staple holder thingie is bigger than yours kinda thing? Naw not really Ferd, but I felt like a real Erse when I showed up in the US with all my electronic documents formatted for A4, and my various folders of useful info, contained in their 4 holed binders.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"pull your head out of your ass... excuse me... "arse" Where I come from its Erse! "the superior metric system, look at who invented that. The French. " Hmmm, au contraire, its the ISO who are based in Switzerland which is even worse!..... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"It's a little bit dangerous, which is what makes it so much fun." And the feathers are sensational.

A Letter on AO, fek Ferdi, you must have a lot to say..... "When will you ever get it straight?" Okay I'll humour you Justin, its metre, not meter. Besides, my dimensions sound better in millimeters than in inches, and my weight sounds better in kgs than lbs.....lbs wtf is that all about, how can you shorten pounds to lbs? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Its not been released yet, but my favourite will be The Wee Free Men... "This book is scheduled to be released in May 2003 This will be another Discworld children's novel. The title is only a working title, and therefore not definite. Terry initially referred to this project as _For Fear of Little Men_ (see below), but _The Wee Free Men_ is the name he's been using most recently. Comments by Terry: "I'm also planning _For Fear Of Little Men_ (working title!) a classic fairy story but with the addition of the Nac Mac Feegle." -- Terry on alt.fan.pratchett, 10 Jun 2001" The Nacmacfeegle, coming soon to a book store near you! -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

What about Blue body, with purple flames? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

We did something like a 40 way tracking dive out of the AN72 at Vichy in 2000, Flyboyz Frick, and Babylon organised it, but it was still a bit of a zoo.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"We can fuse their names together then: OSADDAM " Sadmamma? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I'm not real sure I could have landed my reserve where I landed my main, simply due to not knowing how it flies." Would you have had any choice in the matter? From the sound of it you were 'hoisted by your own petard'. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"that's substantially less than 1/100 of a US cent." Hmm so a dollar gets me 1000 useless posts, looks like I'm due Sangiro some wonga.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Jceman, and Chris, sorry, I guess I've had enough armchair quarterbacking from the other forum, y'know, the other drama that is going on......You guys both make good points, that we can all learn from. Didn't mean to dis ya, sorry if you took it that way. Personally speaking...I don't screw around with mals anymore. So far its a 1:1 draw, mals wrestled 2, mals beaten 1 (brake line knot), there was a time when I might have wrestled one down, but I can't be arsed with it now and will chop before I can convert the price of a repack from dollars to sterling. Nowadays, I'll look at it, put my hands on the handles, look at it again then its adios amigo.... On a similar note, I've previously raised the point of having higher pull altitudes because we are more prone to faster mals these days.....The conversation never really got going on that front though. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Ah yes Yoshi, but then we have to start thinking about physique. EG I am normally at the front....

Och c'mon folks...the thread is titled 'what not to do' so I'm guessing Aggs has learned from this. Point is, can WE learn anything here....... [Nac voice on] Dave, don't do it the same way again, next time, get video [/Nac voice off] -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Comments?" Stop flying with 'grab happy' jumpers. A useful drill is fly grips 'open palmed', ie get people to take grips without gripping, if you see what I mean. Its an old RW thing which is equally applicable to Freeflying. It builds the 'fly the grip' discipline, and requires greater skill than 'tight grip' flying. Apart from that....Good gear setup! Same set up, for the same reasons, as the one on my 'regular' rig. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

I've heard there could be opening problems if you don't roll your nose...... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

I'm not sure about whether or not this stall/sugre thing is a problem, or an opening characteristic. Maybe this 'spooky' sensation is all part of the thing opening slowly and smoothly? What I have noticed is that factory spectres come with deep brake settings as standard. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

I'd say a train is probably most likely to result in some success. Try and get a bar stool, and a mirror, sit the student on the bar stool and show them the sit position (head up creeper?), mirror is useful so they can see, but not critical.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Scientists with personalities, pah! Next thing, you'll be trying to tell us about engineers with a sense of humour... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Spectres have nice slow opening characteristics, and you might be able to jump a camera again. Think sidemount, lightweight helmets, and the principle of moments. But I would definitely get a second opinion, maybe after a short lay off.....I've done over 600 hundred jumps since a saw bones quack snake oil seller told me I'd never be able to jump again. Even if you take a healing time out, you can keep your interest in the game up, learn rigging, video editing etc etc... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Before the canopy was even fully deployed, I was fighting some linetwists." Poor body position Dave? Glad to hear you had limited drama, and pulled yourself out of the shit. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"And she'd lay some stripes across his bare bottom with that soup spoon, then march him home in front of the whole of Baghdad. " Its against the Geneva convention to subject prisoners of war to public humiliation. But I'm sure even the most ardent human rights supporters amongst us would pay good money to see THAT on CNN. Thanks for the comic interlude Bunkster.