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I wouldn't talk if I were you. The way you do it, you first reproduce the entire post, and then re-reproduce the lines you're addressing as a totally separate thing. Talk about wasting bandwidth! Now, here's a free hint: Generally he's at least hitting "reply," at least, if not "quote," so you can always whack that little clicky that says "[in reply to]" and it'll take you to what he's replying to. It's a little out of the way, but it works. Like Magic! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Something which never could happen to you, right?? LMAO Our terrestrial globe is sheltering more than one continent (North America). Ever about heard it? So, show some f***ing respect to the planet you'r living on. You'll be pleased to know that I have not procreated. ...I'm hoping you'll show our Mother Earth the same courtesy, yourself. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Wow! Funny and embarrassing and scary all in one shot! I am no demo jumper, but I have to imagine that if you head into the wrong stadium, you could find that it's the kind that has wires and shit crisscrossing overhead (which would be "across your final approach"). Yikes! I'm sure glad they're OK. What happened to GPS? Who did the spot? Damn skippy! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

...aaaand you're still not interested at all in reading something that's not hate-filled, but instead explains why it's plausible for the religious right to possibly want to attack the 1st Amendment? I thought I did an OK job of it, actually... Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

So that means you are usually responding to me without actually knowing what I said... and then thinking that you're right. I got it all after your first few posts. You hate a lot of things and a great number of people. Oh, you don't know the half of it! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I've never been, but some friends of mine were there in the mid-'40s. Had a hot time in Dresden, to be sure! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Know eye deer. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

You want to tell that we are not, truly, "a mechanised world out of hand"? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

That wouldn't really explain why the pretty, gainfully employed, [otherwise]sophisticated black woman who said, "I found dat lady ring" in my office would talk like that. She works in a newspaper advertising office. She has to speak with people in person and on the phone... I can't imagine that they get a positive impression of her when she talks like that in business environs. Unless she's the kind of person who "turns it on" when in certain company, and off in other company. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Heh, so did Racquel Welch! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

"Wheels within wheels in a spiral array a pattern so grand and complex Time after time we lose sight of the way Our causes can't see their e-ffects!"

The video is consummate '80s! Next you'll be dissin' Geddy's 2112-era HAIR! What are some of their songs that you like more? I'm interested to know. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

And the Rush fans will surely appreciate this one. It's animated YYZ!! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Man, if there is one thing YouTube is good for, it's making me sentimental. You get to see so very many things that you remember from "former lives"... This one is Time Stand Still, by Rush. I would not be surprised to find I am far from the only skydiver who loves this song. Enjoy!

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What's the attraction? Is it a special hobby? What's a "pressie"? And why's that thing going for a hundred fifty bucks?? And what was all that dissin' the Kitty Hawk? Can someone explain these things for me, please? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

No. It's an incredibly stupid thing to say. Thus my telling you up-thread, "...your baiting notwithstanding." OK. So first, you appeal to authority vis a vis your vaunted "25 years experience" and offer your experience-based assessment that Doug925 would have an 80% chance of losing a liability lawsuit based on the events described. Then, when I ask you what your own success rate is at the very thing you claimed to have expertise at doing (deciding on the probability of success in a lawsuit), you demur, saying that I'm just "baiting" you, and you won't "enable" me. I think that since you appealed to your own experience and offered this "80%" estimate, it behooves you to demonstrate that your similar efforts on behalf of clients, which YOU TOUTED, worked out successfully. If you give an estimate like this "80%" one, and then won't tell us how successful you yourself have been at trial when you keep reminding us that people pay you to be good at making such judgments, why should we believe your "80%" estimate in the first place? Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

It's funny how they still manage to want to come here: to live, to get an education, to sightsee, to get medical care, etc. We're such barbarians! I guess everyone loves a barbarian. Look, Arnold Schwartzenegger is governor of one of our largest states! But what was in my "previous post" that was so barbaric?? Did you mean "posts"? Not for long I hope. Lieing motherfucker fucking the citizens of Ca. Please do not pretend that the state of California was not fucked before A.S. took office. If I recall (heh), you weren't quite satisfied with the performance (and, I assume, the state of the state) of his predecessor, either. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

"I ain't seen" and "nigh onto" and such have been around for a couple hundred years, I guess. I'm asking about, yes, a creeping influence from an "urban" (for lack of a better way of talking) that I don't think even most urban people talked like up until recently. What explains the inability of people who otherwise went to normal schools and who otherwise learned the other stuff that was taught, to pick up on how to construct a spoken sentence?! Do you think people who talk this way would write a sentence as, "Why he did that?" when what is meant is, "Why did he do that?" (I've also heard, "Why he DO that?") The subject is what it is. You are free to ignore it, discuss it, or spend the thread (and your obviously precious time) deriding it, but it still is what it is. And I have heard blacks, whites, and hispanics talk like I described. Watch the movie "Rocky Balboa": there's a white girl in the bar who does the exact same thing. Well... there's the door. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

X-Men cartoon done over by gangsta-thugs... INCREDIBLY FUCKIN' FUNNY!!!!! (pay close attention to the dialog, it's fuckin' hysterically funny!) Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

OMFG, I can't stop laughing! You have to check this out, it's the goddamn funniest fake cartoon voice-over EVER! It's a parody of the Thundercats! done in gangsta-thug style! Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Which is exactly what used to happen to me until I finally got a little piece of elastic to tie on there! It used to creep me out that the straps would reach my knees when I was in a sloppy, too-tucked sit-fly. I did not actually fear that forces were about to take the legs straps right up past my feet, but I did not like it, Sam-I-Am! Now with my handy dandy elastic bandy (from Spishak), that doesn't happen anymore. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

I'm not the slightest bit worried that I'm going to be nervous. I was not nervous on my first jump ever (a static line, 3,000 ft., from a 182 back in '91) and was only marginally "nervous" when I began AFP in 2003. No, I want to make sure that I'm not just charging back up into the air without having thought of everything, without having screwed up packing my main (since it's been so long), without knowing what I ought to know (when it's impossible to know that there's something you don't know that you ought to). I may drive up on Labor Day to drop off my rig... but then maybe not if the weather's going to be shitty. If I go, I want to at least be able to watch other people skydive even if I can't jump, myself. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

That is, of course, your prerogative (and anyone else's). Can't dictate that people fight off an attacker. And of course, any person who says they would fight would still have the possibility that in an ad hoc judgment they deem fighting back to be riskier than not fighting back. One other consideration that arises from not fighting back is the idea that if one does not stop one's attacker, that attacker may (because he was not stopped) go on to turn additional people into victims. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire

Here, you don't even appear to be replying to his statement in a congruent, comprehensible fashion. Like if he asked you what your favorite color was, and you said, "Because I grew up in Pittsburgh." Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire