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We are human. We are programed to get the most out of life with the least ammount of energy spent. Given the choice of sitting and picking up what the tide brougth in OR going out and taking huge risks utilizing energy and catching Mr. Right....... Most humans would save their energy and just go for what can be found on the sand. But you just can't go out and harpoon every thing either. I know many a + sized girls who did that around graduation time of the engineering school. And now are very unhappy. Why? Well they found a Mr.......but it wasn't right. They picked up Mr. Pussy Whipped. And what self respecting woman wants that? You want a partner not some guy who says yes and sorry every 30 seconds. And I know a few guys who after a while just said "the hell with this" and went out and bought Ms......how do you say comes with an extended warantee in Russian? Are they happy? Sadly and I hate to say this because it does seem very sad....YEAH! Well for now anyways. If you strip away the humanity of the situation and look at it as an economic / engineering problem it all starts getting very clear and very cold. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I'm sorry but I'm going to pick on you for a second. But I get this often from the old ladies at my Yoga class. OK, what do you think that Mr. Right is going to fall from the sky and music will start playing? This is life not some sort of Bollywood movie. As my grandmother use to say "Fish don't just jump into your boat." Now that being said, I'm sorry I don't know you and I'm sorry for making this assumption that you are not more active in your search. If you are I'm sorry and I don't mean to offend and I wish you the best of luck. As for Nat, darling, gorgeous. You are a girl in a mostly male sport. As we say in the field of engineering, "If her eyebrows are not connected and she's not wearing sweat pants she's hot." OK maybe in your chosen field you are not all that and a bag of chips but I would be at the DZ....yeah you are. Further more looking at the latest data regarding the US. If you are under a size 8 and have a minimum of a 4 year education and are not prone to screaming fits.....YOU ARE A HELL OF A CATCH! I know! I've been on dates and let me tell you I HATE IT! So sadly you do qualify as the hot girl. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Agressive.....I think that's how you girls see most of us guys. Thank you for taking the risk and choosing not to play this game and taking charge of your life. it takes huge guts to do what you did not many if any have the guts to do what you are doing. Bravo! And now you know know how we guys feel on average. In my short 33 years here on this earth I've been hit on by a woman once. And I have to say she did it with great skill and i did not find her aggressive at all. It was a simple "Hi my name is Adriana...." and off it went. It was one of the best and most honest relationships I ever had because we started off on the level with each other. She is now a lawyer in Brazil married to a doctor and just had her first kid. I on the other hand risked huge sums of money and time to be with my soon to be X wife. And I'll be honest I always resented that I had to put up such huge ammounts of energy to be with her and her not understanding the risks I took. Who knows maybe I'll get lucky and find another Adriana and live a long happy life with her. who knows....but odds are....no. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

It has nothing to do with insecurity or security or ego. It's a quick calculation in our heads. Ok I'm going to spend energy walking over talking to that girl. OK it's a binomial distribution, she smiles or she tells me to piss off. Ok what do i loose? time...ok I can deal with that. But if she shoots me down hard how much time to recover? OK do i have enough energy and will to recover from that with in a given ammount of time I have? Yes? Ok let's go talk to her. No, well let's enjoy another drink. It's all a very quick risk calculation. All the risk is on us guys. What risk does a girl take? Saying yes and having a bad time. So it's in your favor to say no. Thus why I indicated early on, the difference is similar to throwing a bullet, a womans risk in the game, to shooting a bullet, the risks and energy a guy has to expend. And the only way to win this game if you don't like your odds is to either step away or to change the rules. For a guy, the options are limited. For a girl the option is simple. Stop being passive and be more active in looking for Mr. Right. Be it online dating or just walking up to a guy and say hi. Sorry ladies, the bar is dark and we can't read you little signals. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Yeah but then look at my cousins. Both very attractive women. One was on a billboard for Budlight for a number of years in NJ and the other pulls in $45k bartending. Now that I'm single they both can't comprehend the thought of having to "work" for a date. Infact while I was talking to one while she was at Starbucks she got hit on 5 times. I'm sure of the 5 one had to be a nice guy? But having too many choices can muddy the watters. Thus....they are both what I lovingly call "Tool Food" that is to say the strong static, the Tool, gets a hit as if he is Mr. Right. At which point I get a phone call where one or the other is crying for he dumped her for a girl who is 21, both are 30ish. I've told them time and time again, maybe your stratagy of sitting and receiving isn't the best possible method of finding Mr. Right. And they both have indicated that they just don't want to "risk" being rejected and but are prefectly happy rejecting guys. Don't think about it too much. It's the social order. And things are not going to change. Why? Because 1 in 10 does find Mr. Somewhat which is better than being single for the rest of your life. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Yeah bro but this is worse. In this sport it's much like Engineering. Where a girl who is OK looking in the outside world suddenly becomes "the hot one". Want to see things go nutty, watch a girl who gets no attention in her life on the outside suddenly get more attention then she knows what to do with. The results are not good. Not for Mr. Right nor for Ms. Right. The same for a guy who goes into say education or the medical field. Dork to Tool in 0.25 seconds. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I was dating this girl at university, very amaing girl. She was GOOOOOOD! And her verbal skills were steller. One time she did too good a job. I pulled some sort of gut muscle so bad....I couldn't get out of bed...I had to roll out! Oh that was amazing! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

sigh...must be nice! My father was a trust fund baby....shame that the trust fund was linked to Iran and the Shah. So as the Shah went so did his trust fund. Amazing video. Her injury....wow! Simpy wow and OUCH! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

OK help out the n00b. This can't be a cheap sport. Skydiving sets me back a solid $100 a day. And i've yet to buy my own parachute. How can any one BASE jump for a living? That can't be all they do right? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

[cabinet has been debating putting water on the plants instead of Brawndo] Pvt. Joe Bowers: What *are* these electrolytes? Do you even know? Secretary of State: They're... what they use to make Brawndo! Pvt. Joe Bowers: But *why* do they use them to make Brawndo? Secretary of Defense: [raises hand after a pause] Because Brawndo's got electrolytes. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

WAIT..you are feeding your plant coffee? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Welcome to my life since I was.....10. Don't think about it too much. As Depechmode once said "People are people..." The laws that govern out social behavior are set in stone and not many if any are willing to challange them. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I think you're looking at the problem incorrectly. You are asking about the set odds of the game of mating where by the amount of energy expended by the guys and girls is similar in comparing the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing one. Yeah I know you can throw but I bet shooting does more. So let's look at this from a macro level and not from a micro level. On aggregate yes attractive girls do get more attention than non attractive women. Thus the good looking girl appears to have more opportunities to bump into Mr. Right. In this case, me trying to read your mind, Mr. Right has his act together, is really deeply a very kind person and just so happens to fit the physical mold that you are looking for. But let' face if Mr. Right fell out of the sky and did a downwind landing screaming your name.....if you are a good looking girl use to getting a good bit of attention you just aren't going to see him or hear him. And why? Simple. Look at the attention that the girl is getting as static, noise. And Mr. Right is a signal. When the signal to noise ratio is such that you can't hear or see Mr. Right well you'll never notice him. You are a satellite dish and you just have too much noise coming in. And every now and again a bit of noise of high enough strength comes in and you suddenly think "AH HA!" only to find out after a few months...."Ah CRAP just another tool!" This is the "game" of dating. The woman sits there as if she were some sort of satellite dish aimed at the night sky just receiving anything and everything hoping to find some semblance of intelligent life. Her energy expenditure, throwing a bullet, while the guys having crossed the cosmos...shooting the bullet. OK so how do we "fix" your antenna so that you actually notice Mr. Right flying past you on that downwind landing screaming like Ned Flanders. Well how about the good looking girl stops being so fracking passive. Passivity means getting what the tide brings in. Which can be safe and secure and well let's face it the tide can sometimes bring in some good stuff! But then again it may be covered in god knows what and smelling of death and be Mr. OK and not Mr. Right. So if a good looking girl wants to meet Mr. Right she can sit and hope.....which has worked for thousands of years. And could still work...it's just a numbers game. Or she can become an active seeker. That is to say step away from the comfortable safety of the shore and take the risk of approaching Mr. Right and seeing if he is ok rather than waiting for him to come to you wondering why you didn't come to help him when he did an epic PLF into a parked car. And sure approaching Mr. Right has some very real risks, he may not be interested. He may be married or you may not be his Ms. Right. So you can get rejected and thus the good looking girl may expend all that energy and still loose. But her odds of finding Mr. Right go up due to her reducing the total amount of static she has to deal with. She becomes an active participant rather than just a passive one. And who knows, maybe the next guy she says hi to....he may be Mr. Right. (sorry about the long post but there is no way in simplying such a complicated topic) Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

OK boys we need to have a talk over here.....you see those...those are boobies (.)(.) and well I like boobies and you like boobies but I unlike you am 100% ok with seeing nice set of (.)(.) with out having to 1) To to Europe 2) Date them 3) Marry them or 4) Pay for them. Now if you keep this $hit up about getting all pissed off about B(.)(.)BIES we are just gonig to have to grather your boys off and send you to Cuba! GOT THAT! NOW SHUT UP AND TAKE PICTURES LIKE A STRAIGHT MAN! http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-484938?hpt=C2 Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Not enough girls. But then that's the same with most sports isn't it? Be it rock climbing or surfing. It's amazing how few women go out and partake in fun sports such as this. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

The cost! Rental prices are nutty! Finding beginner gear at an affordable price....forget about it! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I think you took the rainbow colored pill.... Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Well it was my friends theory as to why his homeland is such a hot bed (pardon the pun) of anger and frustration. I don't know if I agree with him but I know I would not be happy if I lived there. Biology Vs. Religion and Social Pressures.....may cause me to be an angry dude. I don't think I would pick up a gun but I would probably be a bit more angry. As for China, I'm sure it's going to be interesting? Maybe China will start importing girls from across the globe? Who knows? Their culture is a little different from that of the Middle East. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

NO brother Big Blue. As in the ocean and the sky. As the gong goes, "It's my church it's where i go to heal my hurts" and well this hurt was deep and there was no healing. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Thank you!

Would you blow people up if you were getting laid? There is a level of frustration in their culture due to high unemployment, add it to is social pressures, and then some history and a dash of "What do you mean I have to marry the first girl I say hi to!" and well....yeah. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

davelepka Thank you. Before I was educated about the deep toggle input hover, which by the way I still find amazing, I was in a situation where I was above tandems but not high enough so I grabbed my rear risers aimed my canopy into the wind and reduced my decent rate so as to increase the distance between me and the tandems. After about 5 min of "hanging" there was sufficient space for me to set up a clean landing. Thus why I thought, "Well if I'm "hanging" here wouldn't some sort of loops hold on to." But now that I know about the rear riser hover thing really is much easier on the upper body and easier to look around to make sure I'm out of the way. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I remember after 9-11 Faux news said something about Muslims as being the new "blacks". Man did I have my hopes up! As a non practicing Muslim I thought about picking it backup. I had this immage in my mind of all the WASPY kids in the middle class homes calling each other brother, growing chest hair, developing a taste for lamb and my chicks thinking i was bad ass! It never went that way Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Very true. But I'm talking Macro Sexuality and you are talking Micro Sexuality. As a culture where by all sexual contact is prohibited such as that of Saudi Arabia and other hard line Islamic countires or strange cults and or institutions such as the Catholic church. In effect it's hazing to obtain complaince. Except it may have backfired. Again I'm speaking Macro not Micro. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Dumb question, why not? Is it because so you can more or less get the same effect via pushing the toggles down 75%? Also wouldn't it be easier to do flat turns that way? Sorry, just wondering. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!