Deuce

You go Deuce. Feel the hate! No hate. My generation was the last one to really know hate. You guys are just examples of antipathy. Worthless and weak. "You guys protest like old people f*ck. I'd get mad, but you're just too disgusting..."

Whatever. You guys do anything other than IM and PM? Be "Do-bees!" not "Sorry-I-can't-bees" You are all "Ameri-can'ts" LOSERS! I am an Ameri-CAN!

F*ck off, you ass. I just posted some really flattering shit about you in incidents. F*cking nine-foot-tall-Japanese-American-Physicists! I should kick all your asses! Wait. There's just you. I could handle that. (With BallSack) Ass

Not with those jump numbers. Are the majority of your jumps tandems? My few hundred really are statistically insignificant compared to that. I aggressively S turn when I'm high on my target. I really prefer it to the stall-surge method cause winds at my DZ can be very dramatically different between 200 feet and ground level. I have found myself concerned too many times when I did a stall-surge and found the winds at ground level to be nothing. I won't say I "stabbed" at the double-brakes, but I hit them harder than I anticipated. S turns lead to less of that.

You beautiful, crazy girl. Submit. You know you will eventually be a NorCal girl. Shannon! Yeah, I'll be there Saturday. Michelle and Sharky were very inspiring to me when I started. Has she had the baby? If not, I'm sure she's really radiant. Worth seeing, as she has always been so radiant anyhow. The rest of you with salaries: BAH! Lurkers: Come on out. 14 grand with me and a scared first-timer on my lap. What more could you want? Well, you could want Cielo on your lap, or Shannon, but that ain't gonna happen either

We only need a few upjumpers to turn the KingAir tomorrow. Come on out! We'll do a pre-quel to Sharky's big send-off!

Your family is in my families prayers. XO

I can just picture you, on your yak or whatever you're using to impress the locals, telling your sherpa, in whatever the Afghan language is, to "Point the sattelite reciever further south! This auction ends in 2 minutes"

I took my 8 year olds to see it, and my wife. Very good. The Volgons reminded me of the excellence of Dark Crystal. (Parents, if you haven't had your kids see Dark Crystal, you should. The last great not CGI movie" The real-motion Volgons had me. Great film. Loved it.

Where the fuck is Julie? Your humours are clearly all out of alignment. 50% off my ass. Check out the latest Wings ads. Wanker.

Cool. I'm not the only one who is cryptic and wierd when I'm loaded.

My Treo 650 is insane. Captain Kirk couldn't have imagined downloading pictures of girlfalldown on his communicator. Well, maybe he could. I'm just here to tell you, it's cool. (from my 650) JP

Cingular has the best reception at Byron. I've got Cingular/ATT and don't have many issue. As to the phone, the Cingular Treo 650 is the bomb. Works great as a phone, bluetooth, surfing the web is pretty fast and very easy. The picture phone is just OK, but better than nothing

When will you be done servicing my Volvo.

I'm not huge. But I'm big. Page 59. It's cool. I remember the skidive. I love the guy and the product. Every now and again we get woken up by what we do. It's cool. Buy a house/skydive with me Whatever...... Smiles

The RSL is really important. Most of my jumps, lately, (tandem jumps) I have an RSL. If they are good enough for my tandem passengers/students, they are good enough for you. That said, I have never had a tandem cutaway (I'm overdue) but I have had 4 sport cutaways, none with RSL's. It is just amazing how I've gotten used to the chop/deploy sequence. On my first one I essentially did a canopy transfer, and I was terrified. On my most recent one, at Holiday Boogie, I was wondering if I could get away without letting anybody know how I screwed up. They get lots easier as you do them. The challenge then is to make sure you don't take the sequence for granted.

You're cruel. I can't help it. 'Cruel to be kind, in the right measure' I though it was kinda sexy the way he called you bitch. Don't know why, but I did. That's cause you can hear the loving tone. "Honey, would you make me a sandwich?" "What's the magic word? "Bitch"

Bitch. I trusted you! I figured that was a link to some inappropirate picture, but NO! It's a link to Speaker's and I had gone like 92,000 posts without looking in there and was waiting till 100,000 to look again. That surprise-like stuff, from somebody with a reputation for smut links really pushes my buttons. Grrrrr. (bitch)

Hey, I give up. I'm tired. And better skydivers than I will ever be keep dying, regardless of who is there to record it. I don't care about cool video. People die skydiving, even really, really good skydivers. And it makes me wonder, sometimes, why I risk it. The plane rides, really. And my friends. And what we share. And then one of us dies. And I breathe Just breathe.

That guy is in another time zone, not just south, but very far east. I know. I sent him a package.

You missed the point.. Those people are professionals. They do video for a living. THEY DON'T STAND AROUND THE DROPZONE THINKING OF COOL SHIT THAT WOULD BE COOL TO HAVE ON VIDEO AND GIVE PEOPLE RISKY IDEAS THAT THEY NORMALLY WOULDN'T HAVE DONE. Scenario A. You are on the ground and see someone like Hook swoop the hangar. Cool video. Scenario B. You walk up to Hook and say "Hey man! Why don't you swoop that hangar so I can get you on video!" Scenario A is one thing. Scenario B is the cool video idea that gets people hurt. It's amazing how many different times one can explain the same thing and people still don't get it. Rhino Dude, you are being stubborn. I didn't miss the point at all. OF COURSE those guys stand and sit around the dropzone thinking of cool stuff to have on video. Stuff that puts people at EXTRAORDINARY risk of getting killed. Like riding out of a skyvan in a stripped-down Honda, or a living-room set. Contrast that against the time AggieDave jumped with a hellishly low number of jumps with a pumpkin over his head. I was with Brent Finley, Mike McGowan, and Greg Gasson over the Holiday this year. I love those guys, they are very positive and innovative. GG proposed driving a Greyhound bus with the roof sawed-off full of skydivers out of a C-5. That would be some wicked-cool video. So will any video of the upcoming Women's world record. Hundreds of women jumping out of probably a dozen planes. I couldn't get a slot on that gig. The danger of that proposition is astounding. A woman died doing just that on the last attempt. Is a woman getting killed COOL VIDEO? No. Video of a very dangerous world record is something very cool, though. If our disagreement is about guys asking each other to break the law, like planning to open a reserve at terminal at 500 feet to prove some dick-length issue, then I concede. Otherwise, no. All skydiving is cool. All of us (as my bud Mike has said) will die if we exit the aircraft at X-teen thousand feet and take no other action. Me doing an "opening shot video" is very dangerous. Hell, Girlfalldown nearly got killed by an opening that ChopChop video'd. Yeah the sport is hellishly dangerous. Yahoos cranking that up for thrills on video are a tiny fraction of the danger the sport presents to all skydivers. Rhino, I am not missing the point. I disagree with you that staging coolio photographs and video are skydivings deadly idea. I do that stuff all the time. Every one of the attached photographs or grabs increased the possibility of death of the participants. Every participant risked their life just skydiving with me, or even by themself. If your point is that it is stupid to ask somebody to fly their canopy through a 10 foot cement pipe so they can get "cool video" I agree. But that seems obvious. "Hey, I'll be in the landing area when you do your swoop" and the swooper plants his ass in the afterlife is less so.

Zoter, you are wrong. You will be profoundly more safe when you have more jumps, and have witnessed more wacky shit. I put a camera on my head at 200 jumps, and was jumping for money when I had 300. I had a camera on my head when I broke my ankle, and when I just about femured myself, and both of those jumps happened between 300 and 600. I've jumped video with the international crowd, and I'm familiar with the UK or Euro attitude you speak of. It's like the New York jumpers here. Since you go into mothballs for half the calendar, you tend to spend that time doing what we would term safety-day stuff here. Just to jump in the Herc Boogie you have to have more jumps than you have altogether, and jumping camera would be unheard of. And those are your European rules. They make sense. No amount of ground school, book learning, or drills changes that. -I've also been jumping only for 4 years, so I don't have whatever "10 year" thing you seem hung up on. It's not that you are unsafe now. It's that you will much more safe. Much More Safe. When you have been jumping a few more years, and have hundreds and hundreds more jumps. As to Rhino, I don't think Cool Video kills people generally. Most tandem video is cool, and we didn't kill any tandem passengers this year in the US, that I am aware of. I have shot hours and hours of cool video, even a little photography, and I haven't gotten anybody injured or killed. Neither has Gasson, Finley, Hathaway, or McGowan (friends of mine, but out of my league) Skydiving kills people. Period. Often even when they were doing everything right. Sometimes it's on video.

I had just written this response and the thread got locked. I was bummed. So here it is: And a perfect post requires a picture.

I'll do the aliens this time. Imagine the possibilities! Ohhh I hope aliens have more than one penis. Gareth's not an alien anymore, but I bet he has a freezer full of them.

A device to get drunk, that is too complicated to use while drunk, is a conundrum. "Cletus! I can't make it go!" "You got any more or them M-80's?"