wolfriverjoe

Refund my money to me. I don't have any kids, so I shouldn't have to fund education at all. And I don't agree with the zero-tolerance policies they have so I really don't want to fund it. Except maybe that's what society is about. Providing for the greater good. All the retirees in Arizona keep voting to keep taxes down and the schools are badly underfunded. The kids aren't being taught and it's going to bite them in the ass in a few years when all these marginally educated kids hit the streets. No skills, no education. If you are so certain about your beliefs, then run for office, get on the scool board and change th ciriculum. Convince the rest of your community that you are correct and make changes (that's what a representative democracy is about). But when other people don't want your beliefs forced on them (what about the Wiccans, don't their beliefs count too?) don't be surprised if people fight back. "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

One searches. EK, makers of Cat Crap. There are others out there, this is one of the better ones. FWIW, Rain X and similar products force the water to bead up (and run off). Anti-fogs allow the water to wet the surface, not bead up (fog is just lots of little beads). Different needs, different products. "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

Wow. Somehow I think if she put "Baby Stew" on her project menu, the grade wouldn't be all that high Seriously - Menu Items - Small portions, easy to eat (wraps, sandwiches and "finger food"), not messy, easy to digest (not greasy or "heavy") and most importantly NOT GAS PRODUCING no beans, broccoli or anything like that. Not so seriously - Names for items - Flying names, famous DZ names, famous skydiver names. You may have to include a "fact sheet" so the instructor understands what "Perris Poppers" or "Ranch Sauce" or "Cross Keys Crunch" means. Alternatively "splat", "Thud", "bounce", ect. Call wraps "total mals", scrambled eggs "no pull" stuff like that. "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

Some of the other anti-fog treatments help. Cat Crap comes to mind but there are others. Run the heater full blast with the windows open a couple inches (5-10cm for you) to help dry out the inside I use Rain X. Especially on surfaces that don't have wipers. "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

Fuck me there's more than one of them Doesn't say much for us Yanks, now does it? Add in the Duggars and it says even less (or more, depending on how you look at it) Edit to add: JohnDeere "Yea one of them actually made a living for there selfs.....the other have the govt.... " I see both of them sucking off the public. One from the gov't, the other from TV. "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 problem is (and it applies to a lot of situations, not just here) that too many people think "If A is bad, then B must be good". They hate A so much that they blind themselves to the faults of B. "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

HA! I've still got one. I've had it since 2000 (really). It still works great. Although the battery is starting to go. It won't hold a charge as long as it used to. It makes and receives phone calls. And that's 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

NO! Student canopies usually have the brakes set so that a normal reach can't stall the canopy. Having a little bit shorter arms and not getting the full flare out of it is not that big of a deal because the canopy isn't descending all that fast anyway (big, fat student canopy). Taking that extra wrap would give the student a chance to stall the canopy. If they flare too high, the stall could drop them hard enough to get hurt. Not stalling is more important than a full flare. "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

Or the end of the movie. In sight of what they think is the goal, they get stopped by the cops and arrested. Nobody saw it coming. I don't think any of the "signs" that many are seeing as indicators of end times are really that. There's enough ways for the world to end (including by our own hand) that I'm not too worried about 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

There's a difference?? "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 depends on your instructor. I'm not him (or her), so take this with a grain of salt. You will probably have to do recurrency training to show you still know the other stuff. That depends on how long it's been. If you haven't jumped in a couple years, you will probably have to do more recurrency stuff than if it was last summer. "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

"Cutting you loose" usually means that he doesn't want to go through all the paperwork involved in citing or arresting you. So he's giving you a break and letting you go "Go straight home" usually means you've been a bad boy and if he sees you again the slack he is cutting you will disappear and you will probably go to jail. Taking your details is so that he can run your info, make sure you aren't wanted for anything (warrants), checking your arrest history (if you have been arrested before for the same thing, your chances of getting a break go down fast) and noting who you are so if your name shows up again that night, they will know you didn't "go straight home" (see above). You should be fine, but if the same cop sees you doing the same thing anytime soon, plan on hearing the "I gave you a break, why didn't you learn" speech as you are riding in the back of the car. "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

If you look in the "Wingsuit" forum, there's a "sticky" of FAQ. The FAQ has a link to a "So you want to wingsuit base" page. You'll see everything said in this thread (and a lot more) in there. It's a lot harder than it looks, and the consequences are very serious (there's a list of jumpers killed doing wingsuit base in the page I mentioned above - look at their experience level). You wouldn't expect to ski an olympic class downhill race your first year would you? What you see on that video are some of the best in the world. And a couple have gotten killed this year. "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

As long as it takes. If you wait too long between jumps you will waste a lot of time (and money) relearning stuff and doing recurrency jumps. But the jumps don't "expire" The SIM has the recurrency reccommendations in sec 5 "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 link to base is automatic. It's a "sister" site. Base is scary and dangerous becuase it's very unforgiving. No reserve, no time to correct any problems. 500 jumps. Yes. Seriously. 6 years is a reasonable time to do that in. You could do it faster if you want. The requirements (some are only reccommendations, but they are there for a reason) are pretty similar all over. Sort of like a pilot license, the things you need to be able to do are the same, just some of the regs are a little different. There really aren't any Base "licenses", so yes you could buy a wingsuit and a base rig over the internet and "Just jump off a building open your shoot (we call them canopies) and land". I'd give you a 10% chance of not dying (and that's pretty generous). My best advice is to go out to your local DZ and do a regular tandem jump first. Find out what it's really like to fly through the air. Then (if you are anything like the rest of us on here) you will be completely, totally, utterly screwed. You won't be able to think about anything else. Then take the AFF course and become a real skydiver. While "normal" skydiving isn't quite as cool as wingsuit base, it's far, far cooler than sitting in front of your computer watching videos. Go jump. You'll love 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

Oh, yeah. YouTube "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

Sounds like Olestra, the "fake fat" that wouldn't make you fat because the molecules were too large to be digested. "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

Then I choose to believe that the Rising Sun is a house in New Orleans. And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy. "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 not sure I have a whole lot of sympathy for anyone who believes anything a politician says during an election campaign. Politicians lie. All of them. Both parties. "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 more things change, the more they stay the same. The ones in charge do the same things, and the opposition say the same things. It doesn't seem to matter anymore what label is on whom. From right under the video: "Biden: "I pray God when the Democrats take back control we don't make the kind of naked power grab you are doing." " I like the comment (only one when I saw the link) at the bottom: "These videos are pretty pointless any more. I have never believed a word that came out of any of their mouths, so it’s just proving what we all knew all along" "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

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is the unique construction of WTC 1, 2 & 7. They collaped differently that any previous skyscraper because they were built in a manner unlike any other previously built skyscrapers. Especially WTC 7. It had a huge open atrium on the lower floors. The main support columns were holding up something like 2000 sq ft of floorspace per column. After the severe damage from the debris of WTC 1 & 2 (not shown a whole lot because it was not visible from most angles) the failure was inevitable. While a single column failure wouldn't have collapsed the building under normal circumstances, the damage done to the entire building meant that a single column failure doomed the building. Also, the 1993 bombing was intended to bring down the building. If the driver of the truck had been able to park where he wanted, there was a strong possibility that he could have done enough damage by undermining the foundation to cause one tower to tip into the other. Wiki "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

Someone needs to provide a link to Skymama's post on this. It was like the funniest thing in years. this one? http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=3055422;page=1;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25; No, this one.......... http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=3167745;page=1;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25; Oh yeah, now I remember.... Just about busted a gut laughing my head off reading through that again! Sparkly pussy. It just rolls off the tounge so well. "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 news story started off, not with a comment about the burgulary, nor a comment about the police having to do a lot of manual labor, but with the comment about how much the neighbor hates guns. And they made a comment about "equipping a small army". Like a lot of news stories (the NRA has stats on it) the media paints guns as "bad" more often than not. "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 thought it was a "Kneeling American" "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's you. She said thank you (yes, it was just mumbled, but it was there). Some people are uncomfortable accepting nice gifts under those circumstances. She may not have understood (or believed) how you ended up with it. Far too many guys do stuff like this as an "in". Now that you gave her something nice, she may expect you to ask her out with it being hard to say no after your nice gift. I don't know if you did it for that reason or not. But if your office persona is anything like the way you come across on here I can understand her reservedness toward you. Let it go. Maybe keep an eye out. If she uses it, and uses it up, ask if she'd like more. Don't just give her more, ask first. You did something nice. Feel good about that part. I always feel best when I do something nice, and the person doesn't know it was me. Then I know I did it for no other reason than to be nice. Clearing the snow off the windows of the car parked next to me is one that I'll do on occasion "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