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Well damn. I was going to start this one tomorrow morning, but it seems that there is a notable amount of tension on the forums. So, regardless of your country of origin, number of jumps or any such trivial detail, this is the thread to post in.

>Boys and their toys! WHy don't you just switch the lamp on >when you wake up? Because that wouldn't be innovative...

>it's a lot easier to get up, when you can actually see the sun, >instead off gray cloudy sky. Ain't that the truth. The mornings get really dark here this time of the year, so waking up can be really difficult. Being an innovative sort of guy, I attached a 24h timer in a lamp next to my bed. The lamp gets switched on 15 minutes before my alarm-clock rings, so now I no longer have to wake up in the dark. Much easier to get up now.

And big-ways!

> would you ignore it and continue to use the forum? Yup. I like the way this works; I can PW when I can, and when I have to concentrate on the 'W'-word, I can do that and not miss a thing. Except maybe an opening or two for a witty comeback on somebodys post.

Ah yes, written: "kippis", pronounced approx."KEEP-piss" "Get pissed" will probably work just as well.

>The only thing I hate is when they "say" something in another >language that I don't understand. No mutta eihän me mitään sellaista tehdä.... But we wouldn't do anything like that now would we...

>It would be a nie DZ, but they would have to work on the 'atmosphere'. Yeah, I heard that the atmosphere on DZ Moon really sucks...

>The strange thing about this thread is that there is an almost >complete absence of post-whoring. Boobies! Sheep!, and umm.. Beer! >Pity so few will actually take the time to read through the whole thing. Maybe we should start a new thread? I was thinking along the lines of something like "The new improved non-exclusive Morning Club thread". You know, so that the people on other continents wouldn't feel the need to start their own thread?

Just this weekend I played Micro Machines 96 Turbo tournament on Sega Megadrive. That has got to be the party game. Up to 8 players playing simultaneously... And the 8 player 'shared controller'-mode leaves one hand free for holding a beer!

Hey I just remembered another scary jumping day! This was a couple of years back... To start the day, I was jumping a demo I shouldn't have been jumping on. The LZ was tiny, surrounded by high trees on all sides, and was right next to a lake. The only possible landing direction was downwind. The jump, surprisingly, caused no injuries except some loss of skin on my palms due to the downwinder. After I got back to the DZ, I decided to go do a training jump to further my career as an aspiring skysurfer. I had these sort of 'half-boards' which were solidly attatched to my shoes. This way when I moved my feet to a daffy-position while being in a stand-up, it'd be like having a small skyboard under my feet, but which could be split up if I went unstable, and go belly-to-earth if necessary. These weren't a bad idea. They worked quite well, except that they tended to slip sideways when I tried to maneuver. The solution to that was a bad idea. I attached two screws on one board, and drilled two holes on the other. This way, they wouldn't slip sideways, but could be detached from each other by simply lifting my other foot up. Or that was the plan at least. The jump went well, until when at about 1400m I decided to try and attach the boards one more time. Sure enough, I went unstable almost instantly, and you guessed it, the boards got stuck. So no shit, there I was, spinning on my back, my feet stuck together into a propellor shaped bit of wood, and burning altitude rather rapidly. The boards wouldn't budge, and I was at 800m already. Running out of options, I tossed my pc on my back, spinning. The Maverick opened just fine, except that there were about 15 linetwists. Kicking out of them didn't work too well until I managed to free my feet from the boards. After landing, I tossed my rig in a corner in the packing hangar, and proceeded to get very badly drunk. Thank you for listening, don't do what I did.

Last summer I tried a Mr.Bill with a friend of mine. The exit went seriously headdown, but I had already tossed the PC. After the passenger fell off, I started to think that the spinning motion I felt wasn't usually associated with fully deployed and working parachutes. Sure enough, above my head was a so called 'ball of shit'. The reason for this was also obvious: There was a line snagged around my leg. I promptly grabbed the line and pulled it off, and the malfunction over my head started to look more like a snivelly opening. A moment of pumping on the toggles got the Fury to open fully. After landing the passenger came to me and told me that he was, after seeing my mal, pretty certain that I'd be joining him in freefall shortly... He lost a shoe on the jump. It was a nice shoe with flames on the side.

>THE LUCKIEST ESCAPE YOU HAVE EVER SEEN OR BEEN PART OF. Do bar fights count? What about stupid antics while falling out of airplanes?

>So, now that you have sore eyes from reading all that, what did >you chaps get up to? Well, friday my roommate invited his friends from his hometown for a house warming party. Heavy drinking. Then saturday, he invited another bunch of friends for another party. More heavy drinking. Now, some weekend we should invite our mutual friends from school to a house warming party. And then I should invite my skydiving buddies for a similar party. A slight whistling noise can be heard from my liver already... BTW, it was fun visiting the US(thread), but there really is no place like home.

MWAHHAHHAA! We have hijacked your so called 'American' thread! Bow before our supreme power! MWAHHAAHHAAHAA! Ok, it was fun visiting the US, I'm going back to our own thread now.

>To answer your first question, I don't really know, but I'l post anyway.... Speculation is always good fun. One of the reasons I sometimes post even when I don't know the answer for sure, is to bump the thread up and show the one's with the real info that others want to know it also.

European help on your quest coming right up...

>Quick, quick, come and see the Scottish sunshine...before it vanishes.... OOh...pretty! It's been pretty much overcast here for the last three days... Luckily that doesn't keep you from drinking beer!

>He did not open my main flap...he just patted my rig and said that >everything looks great. Actually that's what I'd prefer. After I have closed my flaps I want them to stay closed until pulltime. If I want a gear check on the plane, the only thing I want to know is that the main(and reserve of course) flap is still closed. If I want the checker to open the flap to inspect the pin and loop, I say so. Of course this is something that's probably different from one DZ to another... A question of what people are used to. (to further explain my stand:)My old rig was an old Vector2, and the main closing flap and bridle had to be placed just so to keep them closed... I didn't want anyone messing with my system because they couldn't know 'the right way' to re-close them...

>I found myself in No.6 face dow ha ha! That mint liquor sure is a killer... I take it that none of that stuff will be served at your party on friday? No use trying to keep up with Löysä when you're drinking with him, he's a professional! Oh, now I get it: Mari wrote on the HLU-forum that even No. 6 got cleaned up, now I know why... eeewwwww....

Hey I welcome this monday... Or at least my liver does...

Good morning everyone! After a weekend of heavy beer consumption, it's a relief to be back at work. I need the rest.

I wholeheartedly agree.

>I think copyright is automatic It is. Check out this site.

>Yeah, but who buys this shit? Has anyone ever actually bought >one of those mini spy camera things? I'd never buy anything advertised by spam. Or anything advertised by really annoying tv-commercials. >Is it just the simple fact of how cheap it is to spam that they only >need one or two people to buy their product to cover the overhead? Must be. I bet those two people complain about spam the same as everyone else, but they don't understand that the spycamera they bought just also bought a few thousand additional spam messages.