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Zombie thread! Kill it! KILL IT! cavete terrae.

hah! Hope you weren't hard on him… cavete terrae.

Damn you. I still haven't jumped a Casa or a heli cavete terrae.

Trust me, I feel your pain. 10 minutes ago the person who was supposed to be selling me an AAD this week just backed out and completely fucked me over and now I'm back and hunting again (which is a pain in the ass because the used AAD market is so competitive). Meanwhile, I can't jump because AADs are required here. FUCK. cavete terrae.

My first day at my new DZ on Saturday someone stayed inside the beer line by all of about a foot. People were like "oooooOOOOHHH aw damn" cavete terrae.

Ha! I think I may have just recently retired that shirt in my spring cleanout a couple of weeks ago. It was getting pretty worn… Do it do it do it do it! cavete terrae.

Overstuffing a rig is a great way to burn in. Several people's friends and family can attest to this. cavete terrae.

Whoa, whoa. Let's not get crazy here… cavete terrae.

You sad, silly sons of bitches haven't been doing the thread, so I will. Humps:Jumps:Firsts :1:1 First jump at my new home DZ. After a substantial layoff from jumping within Australia I'm back in the skies of the southern hemisphere. My rig is down while I wait for my AAD to arrive so I borrowed a student rig and got some sky since I was up there anyway. Been a while since I jumped a Safire 2, I think the last time was at Eloy during the 2005 Holiday Boogie while I was getting repacked after a cutaway. This time around was still fun, and while my air skills are a bit rusty it's good to be back! cavete terrae.

Hey meat haulers! Buddy of mine wants to do a tandem but blew his ACL out a few months ago. He's currently functional and is going to get a reconstruction done but isn't going to bother until early next year because it's not really affecting him all that much right now, whereas the downtime from surgery would. He's a bigger guy, 230lbs or so, so (based on observation) that would normally be a slide-in landing anyway, yes? Given that, would those of you who actually deal with students on a regular basis advise waiting until after he's recovered from the surgery next year, or would it generally be acceptable to you if a student wanted to jump in these circumstances? cavete terrae.

Ah, that's the term. I couldn't remember it, I just do it.

OK, here is some weird shit I just discovered this evening. What do these three have in common, (w/o googling): - Jim Bakker - Lyndon Larouche - Roger Nelson None of them have seen me naked. cavete terrae.

Gonna have to go ahead and disagree with ya there, Bob. If it's not a tool, it's a toy. The etymology of "toy" is "small tool." …and why do you know that one, hoss? Because, contrary to popular belief, he doesn't google all his answers......Quade IS GOOGLE!! what happens if I type quade into google? cavete terrae.

Gonna have to go ahead and disagree with ya there, Bob. If it's not a tool, it's a toy. The etymology of "toy" is "small tool." …and why do you know that one, hoss? cavete terrae.

Still waiting for a Weiner-Holder presidential ticket. cavete terrae.

Gonna have to go ahead and disagree with ya there, Bob. If it's not a tool, it's a toy. cavete terrae.

Ugh, no. You need to calculate your caloric need to cover your basal metabolic rate and your basic activity level, and take in at least that many calories. If you REGULARLY do not take in that amount, your body will start consuming muscle mass in order to lower the amount of calories necessary to run the body on a daily basis (because muscle mass requires more calories to maintain, eliminating muscle lowers the body's needs and allows it to keep powering the important systems). The trick is to find your maint rate (the calories needed to stay at your current weight), find your BMR + activity overhead, and eat any amount between those numbers and you'll lose weight. When I was starting my diet I was running a 1,500 calorie deficit. Now I run a 1,000 calorie deficit because I'm right on the edge of my BMR + activity overhead. If I feel I want to eat more, I force myself to do more exercise. cavete terrae.

Rotary winged aircraft are sly, evil instruments of death and suffering at any scale. This just proves it. cavete terrae.

I'm just going to copy and paste my response from another thread, but honestly it boils down to this: Burn more calories than you eat! You WILL lose weight. ____ Late last year I was tipping the scales at about 265lbs (I'm 6'3, for reference). I saw a pic of myself at the dropzone back in college and went "Jesus I really let myself go" and snapped. Now I'm a little over 214 as of this morning, and I want to drop another 10-20lbs (I have a mental image of how I should look but I can't give an honest estimate as to how much the fat I would need to lose to fit that image would weigh). I did two things. First off, I joined a gym because I knew that if I had to pay some assholes money every month on a contract I was gonna get my money's worth. In 2013 there have been precisely two weekdays where I did not do a (minimum) 30 minute cardio session: last Thursday and Friday, when I was at home sick with influenza b. I usually go on most Saturdays as well. However, for me the biggest part of my success was tracking what the hell I was eating. Weighing my portions, learning exactly what I was taking in, so on so forth. I use mynetdiary but there are other solutions. I was underestimating how big my portions were by a long shot, and I was also overestimating how many calories I should take in. Once I knew how many calories I should be eating to maintain my weight based on my actual activity level, I adjusted my intake accordingly. I've taken a few breaks as rewards, but generally take in about 1,000 calories less than I need to maintain weight, and that averages 2lbs/week lost. That said, I've had some slips, where I'll take a vacation or something and eat like a fat kid because I'm away from home. I too have an addictive personality, and I've found one of the best things I can do for myself is to force portion control on myself. If I'm going to order pizza with my girlfriend for a special treat, I don't get a large for myself and a large for her anymore and tell myself "We'll have leftovers for days", which actually means "I'll eat my pizza and half of hers". We order a large to share, or we'll get a medium with a dessert. Most chains publish their calorie information, and if the place you like doesn't, look at similar offerings from places that do to get a rough idea, and then add 15% just to be safe. A "normal" day for me is like so: Wake up, go to the gym. At least 30 minutes of cardio keeping my heart rate around 135. If I've got time, I'll do some lifting after as well. Get to work, make my breakfast shake: 1 cup of light milk 1 medium banana about 35g of light peanut butter 1 scoop Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard chocolate whey protein 1 scoop Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard chocolate casein protein Double handful of ice Blenddddddddd. 700 calories, tastes like a dessert, and keeps me full for hours. Lunch: Typically something around 450 calories - a couple of homemade spicy chicken tacos on corn tortillas, or a roast beef sandwich. Afternoon snack when I get home: 3/4lb of steamed broccoli with hot sauce on it. About 50 calories. Dinner: Generous serving of grilled chicken breast or two (or beef tenderloin), more broccoli and maybe some green beans. About 700 calories. Dessert: berries and fruit if I'm being good. A candy bar if I'm not. I only drink water for the most part; I nearly gave up soft drinks completely (the ONLY thing I gave up, though I've never had alcohol so take that into consideration) unless I'm having a day where I feel I honestly need caffeine, which is perhaps once a month. Then I'll have a Coke Zero, which might give me cancer but at least it's low calories. I've dropped a crapload of weight, and my overall fitness level has increased tremendously. When I was in college I was a two-sport athlete and I'm thinking that I'm almost as fit now as I was then, and by the end of October I should be done with the fat loss I'm hoping. cavete terrae.

Yeah if you're gonna kill your own citizens, only drones are acceptable. cavete terrae.

True enough but saying "including amount of noncombatants" would serve the same purpose without getting the "OMG SAVE ALL CHILDREN" types riled up. cavete terrae.

I really resent this sort of emotional manipulation. They are no more important than anyone else who died. cavete terrae.

Disregard, totally misconstrued part of it. cavete terrae.

I use that in the car and always put in the punctuation marks. "Hey comma dickhead exclamation mark" = "Hey, dickhead!" cavete terrae.