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  1. PiLFy
    Foolish! In the time it took you to read the first book, you could have watched all three movies and then had a nap. Tell me you're joking. Movies never tell the whole story. They'd be nine hours long if they did.
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    You did fourteen jumps in one week? It takes time for your Eustachian tubes to adjust to skydiving's demands. It sounds like you just did too much, too soon. My first jump. My ears were clogged for almost a week afterward. They quickly began clearing much faster. Had I done fourteen jumps in a week. I'm sure I would have had problems, too. Give it time.
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    Sorry. Just defending my greens. ...& missing the bigger picture. Feel free to argue w/someone in SC. It doesn't belong here.
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    My DZ took a gal up who was 94. Damn... Now we'll have to find someone who is 101.
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    Fred paid into the system w/his money for decades.
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    You do flat palms on the ground every day? Is that w/your Doctor's blessing? I'm not trying to argue w/you, Jim. I know you understand the changes that occur w/your type of injury. I'm only concerned you may have forgotten about the increased stress placed on adjoining areas following a fusion procedure. As for this: "I put my foot up behind my head and told her...story of my life ~ two inches away from the best blow job ever!" I guess it's too early for me. Wha_Huh???
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    http://www.airgraffix.com/airgraffix%202011_002.htm
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    "If an old fart like me can lock knees, bend at the waist and flat palm both hands on the ground, my spine is quite flexible even with the bottom 1/4 one solid piece. [Wink]" Yeah, but can you get back up? The fused areas are stronger. That makes the adjoining areas more vulnerable to injury. The above mentioned move would put a lot of stress on T12-L1. You're a big guy, Jim. I hope you don't do that move often.
  9. PiLFy
    In Reply To >But, I can make a phone call and have a portable generator on a flatbed >truck in a couple of hours and I can wire it directly to the pumps myself... Could you do it if the switchgear and power terminals for the pumps were under five feet of seawater? And if the roads between the rental company and your house are choked with debris, cars, trees, and possibly bodies? P.S. - I might be wrong, and that's a very real possibility because I'm not an electrical engineer, but mixing water & electricity is usually a BAD thing Wrong guy, Herb.
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    When all else fails. Read the news... You were right. They did scram the reactors when the quake hit. A nine on the richter scale is damn near biblical. I don't think this disproves nuke power is safe.
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    It has been documented that they did this? They've got meltdowns going @three different cites.
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    The US Navy proved Nuke power is perfectly safe in the Fifties. If done properly? It remains a perfectly safe, efficient power production method. I have a question. It may have been answered in the media. I don't watch TV. The Japanese are no strangers to technology. Why in the H*** didn't they scram the reactors When the quake hit? That's the correct term, right? When they jam the cooling rods all the way in, & shut down the reactor core.
  13. PiLFy
    Very sad. I hope they recover quickly, & return to the air. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zup0DU8_AJQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxsvPc2-qDY&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9UprztapdM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64w8UEYz6Nw http://www.franklinairshow.com/
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    It's time for a second opinion, Kooper. What you wrote is no reason to stop her. Some MDs are arrogant, & like to legislate from the bench. History is filled w/people who have been far more hurt, & returned to active lifestyles. It sounds like that Doc is either ignorant about skydiving, or just biased against it.
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    & here I was, expecting to read about a motorcycle, car, or mother-in-law incident. Shush. You're gonna scare Kooper off, Bry. Yeah, bad health & injuries do have a way of #@*^%ing up the finances, don't they...
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    That's a bad fuqqin day, man. I'm glad you're OK, Bry. How did that happen?
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    "I had flail chest." OUCH!!
  18. PiLFy
    That's great that the leg pain is gone. I've heard Patients complain of lingering pain for several weeks post-op from swelling. Sitting on your ass w/o pain is pretty cool, too. A speedy recovery to you. Follow your PT regimen.
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    *How old is your Girlfriend? *How long ago was the injury? *Which ribs, & how badly were they broken? I've broken at least one of 'em. I suspect I also had a cracked rib when I did my first tandem. Now, they don't trouble me @all. Any more of an explanation from the MD? Bones mend. The weakness then becomes the areas surrounding the prior fracture. The only reason I could see his caution would be multiple fractures of each affected rib. Especially the smaller ones. Either that, or the Doc doesn't understand what a jump is like.
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    I'm happy for you, Adam
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    "Its not a major problem right across the UK but confined to certain inner city areas," They must be awfully busy in those areas. "As for standard of life all recent research that I've seen shows Australia and Canada are above most Scandinavian countries." That was a bit surprising. I hadn't checked those lists in a few years. I didn't realize Oz was so highly rated. The two lists I saw didn't show Canada higher than the US. Scandanavian countries are still well-represented, though. My main point is obesity, CAD, diabetes, etal, are symptoms of stress. Stress combined w/a certain level of affluence.
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    Good Luck, Adam. Have a speedy recovery.
  23. PiLFy
    Bill should consider beard-reserve entaglement scenario as well He hasn't had a snag in almost forty years. I'd say he's got that one down by now.
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    Hard to tell from that article, it was poorly written because it compared city districts (Brent, for example) with entire countries like Portugal. What is the TB rate for the UK as a whole? Last number I saw was 14/100,000, about 3 years ago. I just grabbed a quick article from the OP's source site. There are plenty out there. I believe that Britain now leads the western hemisphere in new TB infections. The UK govt. has tried to make the cause politically correct. It's being brought in by Indian/Pak/Arabic immigrants.
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    I prefer to think of them as the unborn young of another species