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Well put very very well put! So....let's see how many of the ladies of Dropzone have called me shallow.....wow I always had a funny feeling they all

I don't know man but both are sick...dropping a little guy from 10k ft and burning a living animal...... you know other than clams and lobsters. 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 have to agree. The future does not look very good at all for the next 30 odd years. 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, as you see a person you wouldn't know what they were until you approached and asked, opened the box and looked inside. So before discovery the person could be viewed as both shallow and discerning. Having both states at the same time in the same place at the very same time. You yourself can't be the cat because then you would know if you were dead or alive or shallow or discerning.....right? Since you would have perspective? 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 don’t mean to sound sexist or to cause a fight but my friends (half ladies half dudes) kind of got into a slight argument about this. Per our discussion over lunch it almost became evident that it was acceptable for a woman to be discerning while it is not ok for a guy to be and is thus for he would be labeled shallow? Now you know me and I think both genders need to be equal thus I don't agree that a discerning man is shallow. It is a very volatile and touchy subject in our society and both genders take it in different ways. 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 hope you start the "Too Skinny" thread at work, too Hypocrisy. He ain't just a Greek philosopher. Nah it's mostly about how much they hate Ms. Beckham.....and how they would handcuff him to odd things in the house or make him do house work with his shirt off.....what a bunch of shallow perverts! Don't they there is so much more to him than his body! 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!

*soda all over desk* 8 what! MM?M?Inch?Slugs?Newtons? 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!

Fo shiz! The ladies in my office have the video on their phones and talk about it all day long! No joke! 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!

Just look south of China in SEA and if that's too expensive look at Africa...we will always find cheap labor....so that we may have high end products at low costs while also improving our investments? 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!

Come on guys The girl was doing what any young kid does. Bitches about their parents. As I said, as long as they are not doing drugs, or doing bad in school or on the pole or behind bars.... Hey they parents are doing a great job! It's not an easy job being a parent....or an IT dude. 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!

Para5-0 Thank you! Yes as a new guy I pull at 5k-4k which is at about the same height as where the tandems open up, and having a very lightly loaded canopy (0.9 wing loading) I've noticed I tend to float just under where the tandems finish their deployment. I've utilized my fronts to dive and to get out of the way and have practiced going into deep breaks to allow the tandem to get below me. What really gets scary is when I a novis enters into my pattern and look back and see a tandem creeping up on me or at 1,500 lining up for entry into a standard pattern and see a tandem slide in. Being that low kind of freaks me just a little. I've had good success in doing flat turns to increase my distance between me and the tandem in front and have actually added pressure on the fronts at 1k ft to increase my speed a little to pull away. Not sure if either are the "Proper" thing to do. However come safety day I will ask and will make it a point to speak to our great Safety Dude regarding the issue when the season begins this spring! 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 concur. And have to work on that attitude. 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 jump at a DZ that has a smallish landing area compared to the vast expanses I've seen at other DZ's. Thus from time to time there is a funneling effect that takes place where by new jumpers/students such as myself on lightly loaded canopies end up more or less on level with Tandems on various altitudes. I will be asking this question at safety day but would also like to ask the masses since I didn't see anything called out specially in the SIM regarding this issue. If I as a student find myself on level with a tandem at well over 3kft, is there a standard procedure? Should the student / low number jumper dive, flat turn left, or go into deep breaks? And if by accident the same situation occurs at 1kft what is the standard procedure? Is there a basic rule regarding this? I would assume that tandems have right of way and should be given room. However what should the student do to get out of the way that is predictable and safe for all? 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 say by accident you open up at about the same level as another person. The Sim indicates that both parties turn left? Is that correct? Do you guys recommend utilizing your fronts or rears in an avoidance maneuver? Or would you suggest to grab the left toggle and just pull it as low as it will go? Safety day is around the corner and it's one of the questions I will be asking of those who know infinitely more than I. 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!

What did I tell you? Those IT guys....so unstable! And who arms them? I mean really! IT guys with guns! There is a reason why we keep them locked up in the basements of old buildings and feed them fatheads! Yeah sure we need them to access our email accounts and porn. But other than that...this is a simple story about why IT people should not be armed or allowed out of basements. RELAX I'm just trolling and poking fun. The parent needs to relax and take a few Yoga classes. Kids have been saying bad shit about their parents since Adam and Eve were bitching about how god would not let them have sex like siblings having sex was a bad thing! As long as she is not doing drugs, doing well in school and not knocked up...relax! It's what kids do! And one day she will look back and appreciate her parents. 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!

Wendy but if we did that then the economy would slow down via a decline in our GDP as well as the amount of taxes collected. That in itself will then cause other problems. It kind of reminds me of a heroin addict. The more we have the more we need to stay "normal"? And to have "more" we reward CEO's who export jobs and treat people in SEA like slaves and pollute the air and water. Just so we can have cheap yet functional products? 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!

jtval Thank you well put. I have to agree. However, that's where my friends and I hit the conundrum. Eventually people are going to ask you to express your opinion via the "So why don't you ask out him/her to dinner?" At which point one has to express their opinion of what they find attractive or not. This reminded me and my friends of Schrodinger's Cat. You are discerning until you are asked of your preferences at which point you are then considered shallow. But thank you very well put. Edit to include photo of said cat. http://blog.geeksaresexytech.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/catsh.png 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 I'm just saying is that the science experiment may have been off. The results may not be as dramatic as stated in the infomercial. But I hate to say it, but your average person has the IQ of a twice boiled carrot and needs things to be exaggerated for them to notice and not say really dumb shit such as "Well maybe one bulb was newer than the other". A simple 1C increase per year for 10 years would mean nothing to you and I however when you look at it globally it is huge! And that's where the methane comes from. You see vast quantities of it are stored in permafrost. And as that permafrost well...defrosts that very volatile highly efficient green house gas escapes so that the system starts to spin out of control. The CO2 is the dry bushes which the fire is made of...by it self....nothing. the Methane on the other hand is the dumb ass who trows a 5 gallon bucket of lighter fluid on it. All in all not good for you or me or the environment. However if you consume less energy not only will you be saving the future but you will be saving what matters to you right now....$$$ which you can use to do things you want to do. Thus stop seeing it as any one telling you to cut back, look at it as a means to save yourself money! And who doesn't want to save money? 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!

So if some athletic girl who once dated a out of shape guy in the past who was incapable of keeping up with her and her desires to hike and rock climb and go on long bike rides now only dates guys who are equals to her with respect to physical ability.....she is discerning? But a woman who only dates guys with "a hot body" would be shallow? (not stirring shit up just asking) 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!

Do we reward bad behavior? A group of friends and I were thinking today? Are we our own worst enemies? We are caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand we want relatively cheap goods and we want our investments to grow . On the other what we want causes businesses to move research/development and production out of the US and into say China and SEA where labor is cheap such that 1) The companies provide us cheap products and 2) Said cheap products produced at lower rates contain greater margins thus growing our investments. so is there a logical way out of this predicament? 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!

Don't argue with scientific facts. CO2 is a green house gas...the chemistry of the past 200 years proves it. Furthermore it's nothing compared to Methane. Unlike god, you can prove chemistry over and over and over again. And if the results come out differently we can go back and ask why. In the mean time, use less energy, save money and buy skydives. 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!

Discerning Vs. Shallow I was out to lunch with a number of good friends, women and men, and the discussion turned to online dating, dating, bar seen and mating which then intern turned to the difference between being Discerning Vs. Shallow. My friends are well aware of my little list of what I wish to find in a partner....given education, given employment status and given size as well as being OK with cats. For having this list i call my self shallow. However others disagreed. Saying a list like that can be called discerning.....I don't know... So thoughts, without getting into personal attacks and name calling, what in your opinion is the difference between Discerning Vs. Shallow ? Is it simply an issue of correct utilization of marketing? Is it gender based? Are men shallow while women discerning? 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!

Zumba ? Isn't that organized dancing for white chicks who can't dance? Nah the girl looked on in the picture if you ask me. Athletic kind of girl I would see at any rock gym. But I have to agree with the BMI thing and the age limit. There needs to be a limit as to how thin some one is and it should be treated as a occupational health issue. The age thing should be looked at as child labor. Just me just my thoughts. 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!

NICE! Rock it hope it all works out GREAT! 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!

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