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Bolding mine. Most definitely a "no-no." It's not a "tough it out" thing to do. If you are congested, the pressure that has to go out of your sinuses and inner ears (on the climb) and back in (on the descent) won't be able to properly. Due to the way pressure and congestion work, and due to the fact that the climb is relatively slow, compared to the descent, you may well find yourself in freefall approaching pull altitude in excruciating pain. Pain that compares to having someone pound a nail into your face directly between your eyes. And you have to pull, check your canopy, fly a pattern and land as they continue to tap that nail with their hammer. Guess how I know this. And that's if its not too bad. Worst case can be ruptured eardrums, ruptured sinuses, lots of blood, serious consequences. Don't do it. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

"...it rubs the lotion on it's skin, or else it gets the hose again..." Naaah. It's only "Silence of the Lambs" if someone is planning on wearing them again. Sort of like the bomber jackets with the WW2 airplane nose art on the back. I can think of a few tattoos that I've seen that would be cool to see preserved & displayed. Sort of like the "Bodies" exhibit. And of course, there should be a "Hall of Shame" too. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I hope someone who knows what they are talking about answers this, because I'm curious as well. I'm also curious, if a cop is wailing away at your head with their baton, is trying to shield your head with your arms "resisting"? What are you supposed to do in such a circumstance? Turn your head to make it easy for the cop to bash out all of your teeth? Don It's gonna suck. Part of me would really, really like to see one of these overzealous bullies attack someone who knows what they are doing (an MMA cagefighter would be good). Run up to them, no ID, no warning and just attack. The cop would be on the ground and bleeding in a heartbeat. The other cops would then run up, beat the hell out of the guy, arrest him for resisting, assault on a cop and whatever else they could make up. Without video of the incident and a really good lawyer, it will be a case of 3 cops' word against one "suspect". Who do you think is going to win that one? Courts have found that an innocent homeowner can use force against the cops in the event of them forcibly entering a home (no-knock search warrant executed at the wrong house, for example). But the poor guy who the cops attacked had his life pretty much destroyed in the process. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Bingo. Thank you.

Bolding mine. If "blonde Ashley" (or anyone else) brought a "device" that had road flares (look like dynamite), modelling clay (looks like C-4), a glass jar containing a yellowish oily liquid (nitroglycerin), or even a closed, opaque container that could potentially contain explosives, it would be a different story. It was a clock. Nothing else. No detonator (fake or real), no explosive material (again fake or real), no shrapnel material, no nothing. Except a big digital time display. Which, as Quade pointed out (along with about a bazillion other people) will be confused with a bomb only by people whose entire EOD training consists of watching 24. After all, it had a black wire and a red wire. Cutting the red wire disarms it and cutting the black wire detonates it... Or is it the other way around? "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I have to admit that Obama's presidency has been a real eye-opener. Not everyone who criticizes him is racist. Personally, I oppose many if not most of his policies. But the number of people who think he's Muslim, or Kenyan, or Communist, or all the other idiotic claims that are made is telling me that we haven't gone anywhere near as far from the Pre-Civil-Rights era as I would have thought. There are people who I have known for quite a while who have turned out to be basically closet racists. They instantly believe anything negative about Obama, yet refuse to look at the actual facts. When asked to articulate what they don't like about him, they don't bring up gun control, healthcare, foreign policy, or any other actual fact-based criticisms. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

How about this one? Tennis star, standing outside his hotel, supposedly looks like someone in an Instagram pic. Cop runs up and takes him down. No warning, no identification, no nothing. http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/10/us/tennis-james-blake-tackled-by-nypd/ The "whole story" is out. The cops claim "mistaken identification." But the cop that did it is a subject in two excessive force lawsuits. Go figure. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

0.587 BAC. Wow. LD-50 is somewhere between 0.40 and 0.50. Here in Wisconsin, we used to have what was called the "Death March." College kids, just legal to drink, would go up and down the main street downtown. They'd take one shot at each bar. Two or three would die from alcohol poisoning each year. The city tried to stop it, the school tried to stop it, but it took a long time (and the 21 year old drinking age) before it went away. And yeah, IBTM. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I've often wondered about that; Is it actually the very same gasoline, or are different brands just hiring the same delivery trucks? I think there are physically separate compartments in those tankers, so one tanker could carry multiple deliveries at once. Same truck, same gas. As in the truck goes to the BP station, fills it. Goes across the street to the Marathon station, fills it. There are separate tanks in them (usually 4), but that is for the different grades of gas. I don't pull gasoline tanker, but I've seen them up close. And Turtle is somewhat right. To a large extent, different grades of gas is more about the additive package than anything else. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

That's how I took it. And I think how most people took it. There are quite a few "Ha Ha! You were wrong!!" people on here. I don't see you as one of them. At least not in this case. And Billvon has lots of good ideas on lots of things. And Airdivr mentioned "98 octane". Where do you get that? I've only seen 87 (regular) 89 (mid) and either 91 or 93 as premium. And the only "Ethanol Free" premium I know of is 91. But it may be different where you are. One of the "funnier" things about premium that I've found (2 of my three cars require it) is how much the price varies. Regular (87) is exactly the same all over town. It might vary a bit as the prices change, but if the price has been the same for more than a day or two, everyone is the same. Not so with premium. I've seen it vary from $0.30 over regular, up to $0.70 or so. A couple weeks ago, I found regular @ $2.48. 93 Ethanol @ $3.18, 91 no Ethanol @ $3.08, 91 Ethanol @ $3.13 one place, $2.99 at another, and... (wait for it)... 93 Ethanol at $2.78 at a different place. I know where the local stations get their gas. With the exception of the 91 No Ethanol (Kwik Trip, they have their own tank farm and their own trucks), they all come out of the same tank farm (Williams up in Green Bay) and even come out of the same tank truck. Go figure. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I think we as a country are going to continue to take steps to "get away" from it (which is a good thing). There are a lot of factors at play here. Two that come to mind first are fuel efficiency in big trucks and plastic bottles. Both are huge consumers of oil, and both have taken big steps in recent (last 10) years. Big trucks have also taken huge steps away from diesel towards CNG (Compressd Natural Gas). Regardless of the price of oil, those aren't going away. I would have agreed with Bill on this, not seeing gas below $2/gal in my lifetime. But, here in Wisconsin, it was briefly below that last winter. Bottomed out around $1.95 or so for a week. Unlike the "cheap gas" era back in the 90s, however, I don't think most consumers expect it to last. So buying huge SUVs, big boats and such, expecting gas to stay cheap, won't happen. Short term, it gives people more money to spend on other stuff and makes car travel more attractive. Both will help the economy. Long term, I agree that it could be bad if we forget what $4/gal a gas looks like. And if it stays cheap for long, we tend to forget stuff like that fairly quickly. But electric cars, CNG trucks and other "non-oil" things will continue to grow. Even when the cost advantage isn't as big, they'll just grow slower. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Discussed more than once before. Thread on it HERE. Scroll down a bit and TK Hayes has a really good design for a ziplock bag/duct tape setup. Scroll down a bit more and he put up pics. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

At what point do you stop rejecting and start believing? I don't necessarily disagree, but I wouldn't say that it's entirely about power and control. I'm sure that with a bit of objectivity one can find both a positive and negative perspective - as with anything. Well, it's far more of a "Stop believing and start rejecting." I was brought up religious. I never really questioned what I was taught. And then I started thinking for myself. Asking questions and looking for answers that were more than "because that's what the bible says." And the harder I looked the less I found. And modern religion is power and control. From the TV evangelicals who need people to send money so that the preacher can buy a jet to "spread the word of the Lord faster." To the Saudi Wahabi to the Iranian government to the Vatican. Individual religion is usually about fear of the unknown. What happens after we die? What is the purpose of life? Who is in charge? The idea that the answers to these questions are "Nothing, nothing other than what we make of it, and nobody" is something some people simply cannot accept. The idea that we are here by blind chance, infinitesimal specs on an infinitesimal rock in a very, very tiny star system in a galaxy that is only one of an almost infinite number of galaxies in the universe is something a lot of people simply cannot wrap their heads around (Total Perspective Vortex, anyone?). So they make up this omniscient, everpresent entity that "watches over them" and has a plan to counter those fears. Plus, the "reward and punishment" of a God was probably a necessary survival trait for early civilizations. It's kind of interesting that every civilization had a "God" of some sorts. Usually with a "creation myth" that explained how the world was created. These stories were either passed down for so long that nobody knew how they started or were "revealed" to the holy men (who were usually in charge - go figure). And unless they were derived from another, they are all different You'd think that if God was real, he wouldn't play the rather nasty trick of telling every different civilization a different story. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I think it falls under "assembly" and should be done by a rigger. Opinions on that sort of thing go all over the place. Again, it's a 5 minute job. If someone asked me to do it, I'd be happy to do it for a "thank you." "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

What is the rig? Retrofitting a Skyhook to one is often not possible. Retrofitting an RSL can be done, but (depending on a few things) it is a task for a Master Rigger/Manufacturer. You can just use large stow bands. You will most likely be double wrapping the non-locking ones. Switching out a P/C is a 5 minute task. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Well, the level of teasing and tempting in that so-called "freedom of choice" is enough that, as Professor Kallend pointed out, if done by modern day cops, would easily be tossed out as entrapment. And, of course, that isn't the freedom of choice that God implemented, is it? Just the way the bronze age myths, legends and folk tales has it told. I'm far, far more rejecting the creation myth as told in the Bible than rejecting God. As I progressed through this life and my spirituality and beliefs changed and evolved, I realized that modern religion is entirely about power and control. It may (or may not) have had noble beginnings, but there is very little that is noble about modern organized religion (all faiths, not just Christianity). "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I'm going to guess "not too many." The route the refugees take is long, arduous and uncertain. The kind of journey you don't take if you have any other options. For Daesh to infiltrate the west, it would be a lot (a hell of a lot) easier to sneak into Jordan or Lebanon and go to Europe as a tourist or business traveler. They have the money to pay for the documents and transportation. They are also getting a fair number of recruits from the west. It wouldn't be too hard for them to tell a few to "Stay there and we'll help you take the battle to your homeland." Of course, the level of competence that is going to go for a Daesh recruitment isn't all that high. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Arguably the coolest washer ad ever. I have no idea what topless girls have to do with a washer, but I don't care. There's more than a few technical errors in there, but I don't care about that either. The video in the OP is totally fake. IIRC, the beginning is Travis Pastrana's "no chute" jump. But he was wearing a climbing harness under his shorts and hooked up to a guy wearing a tandem rig. From a technical standpoint, even if the trampoline could handle the impact, it would still be too sudden of a stop to be survivable. Look at how high the airbags or box piles are for stuntmen who are "only" falling a hundred feet or so. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Wait, I thought it didn't include the knowledge of good and evil, hence the whole serpent/apple/original sin thing... Are you saying you don't believe in original sin because knowledge of evil was god's plan all along? Surely an omniscient God would've known that they'd eventually rebel and choose knowledge over Him, right? Which would make him a bit of a cunt for setting the trap, eh? Douglas Adams summed it up nicely in "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe": https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/430537-your-god-person-puts-an-apple-tree-in-the-middle "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Reads like "bad weather." Don't know if it was heavy winds that took it down or soft ground due to the heavy rains. I'm guessing they don't know either. Since it's the Saudis, we may never know. The "Hajj" starts soon. There's usually at least one good stampede and a couple fires in the tent cities. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

The aerosol propellant dries quickly, leaving a film of dry silicone behind. This is perfect, it lubricates without attracting dirt that increases cutaway pull forces. It doesn't need to be wet to lubricate. Derek V ^This. The liquid is just a carrier. The idea that the lube "dries out" or that the cables "absorb it" is flat out wrong. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

At home getting ready to hit the road for work. Wife called me into living room to see what had happened. Got there just in time to see 2nd plane hit. I knew right away that it was no accident. Not two planes. It was pretty clear that the 2nd one had been deliberately (if very poorly) flown into the building. I said something like "That was on purpose. A "not-so-smart" bomb." I also knew that the police & fire would have set up their command center at the base of the buildings and anyone below was probably in a world of hurt from all the shit falling from the 2nd impact. It took a few tries to convey those two thoughts to her. She (like a lot of people) simply couldn't grasp the concept of an attack like that on our soil. As we watched, I realized that the towers were likely to come down. Severe impact damage, uncontrolled fires... Again, trying to convince my wife of that was difficult. I still swear that I could see the roof of one of the towers from the view of the side of the building, indicating that the top was no longer straight. None of the TV people said anything about this. On a similar note, during the coverage of the 89 San Fran quake, I was watching TV coverage and was wondering why the freeway looked wrong (the Nimitz that had collapsed). I called into work and asked what was going to happen. They weren't sure, but said plan on heading out. Ended up taking a load of paper from Green Bay to Cleveland (more or less). I bounced around the radio dial and found NPR had the best coverage. Going through Chicago was very strange. 3:30 in the afternoon and no backups. So many people had been sent home, there was no afternoon rush. So many people had no clue who AQ was, or why they didn't like us. It was pretty clear in a day or so that we weren't going to simply send a few T-Hawks into a training camp or two. The US was going to send SF teams into Afghanistan to lead the Northern Alliance against AQ & the Taliban "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I wear the big kroops "Dork Goggles." I have 'aviator' glasses and no interest in contacts. They work pretty well. But look pretty dorky. They are not super aerodynamic, and need to be tight to keep from flipping up. I replace the elastic every year. I've been pondering some Gatorz or Liquid with the prescription inserts, but haven't gotten the motivation to spend the money on them yet. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I don't know if this has been posted before, but it popped up on my FB feed this morning: A car full of Irish nuns is sitting at a traffic light in downtown Dublin, when a bunch of rowdy drunks pull up alongside of them. "Hey, show us yer tits, ya bloody penguins!" shouts one of the drunks. Quite shocked, Mother Superior turns to Sister Mary Immaculata and says, "I don't think they know who we are; show them your cross." Sister Mary Immaculata rolls down her window and shouts, "Piss off, ya fookin' little wankers, before I come over there and rip yer balls off!" Sister Mary Immaculata then rolls up her window, looks back at Mother Superior, quite innocently, and asks, "Did that sound cross enough? "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Apparently the guys who wrote the song "Eye Of The Tiger" are NOT happy that she used it. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/09/why-the-band-behind-eye-of-the-tiger-hates-its-use-as-kim-daviss-fight-song/ Is it just me, or does it seem like conservatives more than any other group feel like they can use any song they like for their "theme song" without consideration that the rights to those songs are owned by people who may not agree with those particular positions? "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo