nacmacfeegle

I have to ask: do you commonly let people pack your shit? Sorry, I couldn't resist... hope people get that one... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Packing shit, aka:- turd burgling, arse bandit, shirt lifting, ring reaming, brown jobbing, jobbie jabbing, or taking it up the poop shoot....In other words, anal sex. Its not my thing, but hey, live and let live.....

I look forward to quaffing Steve's 'Gear Beer',

Good catch Zen, I didn't think about the tether "horse shoeing", and snagging the rest of the swarm. Cya D

Chris, this is a well known, and much talked about glitch here on DZ.com. You get fewer 'bounce' messages if you place the intended respient in your address book. See the errors and bugs at the bottom of the forum.

Oh, and another time, at band camp, we signed the same guy up for just about every "pay nothing now., accept our free 30 day trial" type of shit we could find. Ever tried to shake off the Readers Digest???? They are worse than the taxman.... Cya D

when I was a junior draughtsman, we had this bully guy who would mistreat all us young hopefuls, a really nasty piece of work..... So....we would superglue his (technical drawing) pens, which are a complete bitch to clean, put blue tack on his chair, a bitch to get out of a suit, put marking blue (inky stuff) on his brief case handles, hide important paperwork, put bird seed and bread on top of his car (ever seen what seagullshit looks like on a nice car??) etc, etc, etc. All pretty lame stuff, but fun in a vengeful kinda way nevertheless. Many, many, many years later I had the guy working for me on a survey team offshore in the North sea. I felt kinda bad about things, so I told him all about the bad shit we used to do to him, and explained why, thinking he would laugh and joke about the good old days.... He blew his top ranting, raving, swearing, being very rude etc, and then didn't speak to me for the rest of the trip (as Rich said, when you are on site, things get a little personal, and a sense of humouor is really important). Well, it was xmas time and we were all getting ready to go home, Roddy had spent about a month's wages on tax free cigars, cigarrettes, after shave, perfume, etc and was way over the limit (offshore UK, most rigs have a tax free store on board) for UK customs. He had a full holdall of goodies, no clothes, just a lot of very excpensive stuff, get the picture?? Somebody (not saying it was me at all!) tipped off the excise men in Shetland..........The last I saw of Roddy, he was about to get the "Big Rubber Glove",......And of course, he missed the last connection on Xmas eve..... The ass you kick on the way up, may be the same ass you have to kiss on the way down.

Okay peeps, I'd like to make a couple of points. I am NOT against gear checks prior to emplaning, in fact I'm all for it. I AM against increased 'rules' and extraneous paperwork in our sport. I, like most other people have to abide by certain rules in my ground bound day to day business. In fact I deal with the HSE (UK Govt safety people) on an almost daily basis, I write and develop safety cases for oil platforms mainly in the North Sea (which must be formally reviewed by the HSE) as part of my regular job designing them. I AM all about people being responsible for their own safety. Okay here's a little scenario, you rock and roll up to manifest at WFFC, the nice girl gives you a 3 minute call for the sunset Otter, cool you say, strapping on your rig, and hopping on said Otter. You haven't had a gear check, are you any more or less safe than jumping in the UK (ignoring traffic issues) at your home DZ? If you think you are less safe ask yourself why?......And do something about it. Teach yourself to look after yourself, pin check yourself with your rig on, do all the look touch feel on the 3s as Polarbear suggested yourself, after all, its YOUR life at stake. Most people have a ritual check, review it from time to time.....I check my pins, bridle, cypres, 3ring and handles every time I pick my rig up, it takes about 60 seconds. I am a little alarmed that a couple of people here have misrouted a chest strap and left it for somebody else to detect, its litterally right in front of your nose, for gawds sake. Would you be happy having somebody who can't route a chest strap correctly checking you out? Take yourself aside and slap yourself about a bit...... Oh, and at least once a month, give your gear a complete inspection, clean your cables, dismantle and reassemble the 3 rings, check all the usual wear points, and loops etc (there's an excellent gear check list both here, and on the BPA site), don't wait for that repack cycle to come crawling around...... "Complacency kills in this sport, but it is a very, very easy pit to fall into." ---great stuff Polarbear, my point exactly..Be disciplined people. I'm not going to rant on canopy flying, thats entirely up to you.... And please don't get hurt, cos I love you all....... Peace, and muckle great blue yins, Cya D

sqeezie giggle tush, that can't be right.... Cya D

"Case of beer" en espanol?" mucho cervesa???

CERVESA!!!!!!! Cya D

Somehow this doesn't sound good to me, how long a leash are you talking about, and how would you manage the leash as you track, dump and try and clear all the mess..... If you could master it you would be onto a winner though, and may even retire early....... Something retractable like one of those doggie leads might be a good idea...... Cya D

Zennie you wee technophiliac, look what you've started again, the nerd herd are grazing the DZ , arrrghhhhhh.

"it is just plain smart" Agreed 100%, when I'm around my chums from the UK, we check each other whether a check is a rule or not. "I wouldn't even say it is anal" They won't let you on the plane unless the paper is signed, as if that makes you safe......and anybody off student status can check you, do newbies know what they are looking at? How to identify a frayed closing loop, or three ring loop, if a bridle is routed correctly, I don't think so. Here's an example, I was asked to check a guy who was jumping a wonderhog or a sweethog or something like that (an oldish rig, with a strange reserve pin setup). I'd never seen one before and didn't know what I was looking at, I refused to sign the paper, and the jump master got all pissed, cos he had to get off the plane (he was sat at the front of an Islander) and do the check himself........We are all responsible for our own safety, and thinking any different cos somebody has looked you over is just plain wrong. As for getting on a plane without a rig and nobody else noticing................Yeah, I've even heard of fatalities that occurred like that (pack shed myth??), I heard it was a camera flier........ Cya D

"stop post whoreing so much" And, pray tell, why would you want to do that?? Cya D

Enio Morricone, easy enough to find...... Cya D

Dayummmm, I knew I should have skipped off on wednesday... Cya D

Skip shaving for a couple of days, get some mexican food, coronas, and tequila, some cheap cigars,wrap an old blanket round you and do the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns.... Its a laugh and a half............"I don't think its very nice you laughing at my mule...." Cya D

"Sounds hard without going unstable" It is at first, but you'll get used to it, visualise yourself hugging that big ball....get your arms round it as much as possible, and try and squeeze against it with your thighs and knees...now de-arch slightly and your almost there...But your instructor should be able to help you better than a flailing freeflier like me.......enjoy it.. Cya D

"An ass shot is SO not equal to a coveted boobie shot" Okay, lets negotiate, I'm a reasonable guy Cya D

Gale, I've spent a lot of my time in freefall trying to go slow, ysee, I'm a big bellied brute...... At your stage, I would only worry about flying your body around, safely. Fall rate should not concern you. If your instructor can't keep up, or more likely down, with you, then thats his/her problem. Get yourself through the PFF (assuming this is like AFF??) safely first, then worry about developing those skills that you need to enjoy flying with other peeps. If you do any coaching past student progression (highly recommended), one of the first things you will be taught is how to control fall rate. Hugging the beach ball as mentioned earlier is a good way to start, also go to www.skydivemag.com, and enter 'mantis' into the search engine for a good article by the British girls team Vmax. This may help, mark the site as a favourite, cos its a great resource. Don't get put off posting if you think people are making fun of you, they are probably just jesting, its a sign of affection, and you'll have to learn to live with this anyway.... Cya D

"But I looked better out of it, right? " Wouldn't like to make a snap judgement without a picture... Cya D

"write music" No kidding, your songs have had me chuckling away when all around were being soooo serious and into their work... And seeing as how we are 'coming out' I've attached an artists impression of the 'real' nacmacfeegle Cya D

Agreed, its a bit anal, but it sure cuts down the "stupid" accidents. Cya D

I've done a lot of living in my 30 years.... Like wee second hand sports cars, its not the years, its the miles brother... Cya D

Or mebbe he thought the car would attract the girls???? Pretty sure we all know guys like that