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Can't take her seriously as a jumper until she starts showing up to the DZ without makeup CLOTHES on. FIFY cavete terrae.

Short nails, little or makeup and laughs when she farts *looks in direction of girlfriend, points her at screen* cavete terrae.

also just for laughs what is the typical "sky chick" vibe anyway? cavete terrae.

Can't take her seriously as a jumper until she starts showing up to the DZ without makeup on. cavete terrae.

Well, other than its architecture (ranked #2 in the USA), its universities, its ranking as an international city (#2 ranked US city), its parks, harbors, restaurants (top ranked after NYC), Blackhawks... I actually like Chicago (other than everything about their politics, the blackhawks and their legion of "fans"), but I couldn't NOT fire that shot . I'd never ever live there but it's on the list of cities I will visit without being sad about it That said, I've never understood architecture and universities as things that help a person decide where to live. Unless that person is an architect, or a student? cavete terrae.

The only good things about Chicago are pizza, SDC, and the flight the fuck out of there. cavete terrae.

Sadly, it's not that simple. I always tell people that if you say "I have nothing to hide" you're either intentionally lying, or naive. There is not a single person anywhere on this earth that knows every single thing you can be locked up for in any given country, so by thinking you have nothing to hide, you could be exposing yourself to prosecution. When you actually KNOW how over the top the laws in a place are and still go there by choice, you basically burn any bitching rights if you run afoul of the laws. I'd never tell someone they shouldn't go to a place, but I might offer reasons why I wouldn't personally go there. cavete terrae.

and if the infrastructure wasn't built on what effectively amounts to slave labour… cavete terrae.

100% effective way to avoid imprisonment in theocratic shitholes: Don't go to theocratic shitholes. Some stuff in Dubai/UAE is interesting, but none of it is interesting enough to outweigh the fact that it's VERY easy to get locked up for all sorts of stupid shit that might not even be your fault, like stepping on a seed. Briton jailed for four years in Dubai after customs find cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar under his shoe a Swiss man in jail for possession of 3 poppy seeds that he brought with him to Dubai after eating a poppy seed bun at Heathrow airport. Two Canadian tourists in September 2009, Rocky Sharma and Stephen MacLeod, discovered that even though Celebrex (an arthritis medicine) is not banned in the UAE, possession of it resulted in free budget accommodation in a Dubai jail for a month after Dubai airport officials discovered it in one of their bags when they arrived. The lengthy stay was apparently because it took that long for the Dubai authorities to figure out what the drug was. etc etc This is why I don't go places like the UAE/Dubai, Indonesia, and so forth. It's simply not worth the risk to me. cavete terrae.

That strikes me as… strange. My rig (Infinity) has them on the inside, for reference. cavete terrae.

That game has devoured more of my life than I care to admit. cavete terrae.

Yeah, I'm down just under 50lbs since October myself. My wingload has gone from a 1.5 to a 1.2something cavete terrae.

I just told my brother, whose health I worry about because of his weight, that if he gets down to 230lbs I'll either buy him a tandem or pay for his first jump course. The damned fool accepted. Hopefully next summer we can welcome a new addict He does some amateur MMA fighting so he's been training for that, and is down about 15lbs already, so I know he _CAN_ do it, just hoping that some extra motivation will help so that he _WILL_ cavete terrae.

That's not an entirely fair blanket statement. If I'd been able to afford it I would have bought a rig around the same time, as the rental gear at my DZ was brutally small for me. Now, "buying an aggressively-downsized canopy and basing your new rig around it halfway through AFF might not be wise" , I would agree with. cavete terrae.

Hopefully she decides to quit life altogether. cavete terrae.

I think you mean there are two VC-25As that can act as AF1… there's only one Air Force 1, and that's when dipfuck mcgee, I mean POTUS, is on board. cavete terrae.

http://cdn-www.i-am-bored.com/media/cow-pig-forever.jpg cavete terrae.

There is absolutely no question in my mind that if you cry rape and it's bullshit, you should serve the maximum sentence for rape. cavete terrae.

…and if it happens the way they outlined it, I'll once again quit jumping here, and probably just move. cavete terrae.

I bet it's not easy to scrape together the rent money every month doing tandems and videos while living on food stamps, so if you need some spare change, all you have to do is ask bro. But being angry about my expensive purchases isn't going to help anything.

Nah, I've made WAY worse in my time here. cavete terrae.

With good reason. Everything in Australia is overpriced. I've heard what a liter of petrol costs there. That about sums it up. Drives me crazy. cavete terrae.

Here is the list of things in Australia that aren't overpriced by most American standards: cavete terrae.

Disclaimer: I'm not an instructor, but I'll try not to be an asshole either for once :) I'll try to relate to this as best as I can… my exit weight right now is a bit higher than yours (215lbs without gear, and my rig is set up with a 190 main and a 220 reserve). However, I've lost about 50lbs since October, and I was loading that 190 at around a 1.5 at my heaviest. I've had exactly two landings in the last 8 years that I didn't stand up, one of which was a brake line that broke during my flare (not much you can do there…), and the more recent which was a downwinder out of a balloon in a roughly-plowed field in December. I bled off some speed and stumbled a bit and fell to my knees at the end, so it was damned near a standup anyway. Now even with all that, I would be perhaps not "shit scared" to jump a 160 but I would want the conditions stacked in my favor. I would DEFINITELY not want to be in the saddle at 1,200' over a neighbourhood for my first experience with it, especially if it was my first cutaway and I was amped up over it. Hell, when I got the 190 I went to the DZ twice before I got conditions where I was willing to put the first jump on it, and I consider myself a damned confident jumper. So if someone asked me at my current experience level if I'd take a 160 reserve, the answer would be an absolute, categorical "no". You've already had something go wrong if you're under it, why increase the odds of another thing going wrong if you can avoid it? Frankly, I wouldn't be comfortable with a 176, even, because when you're under a reserve you want things stacked in your favour as much as possible. Bill's suggestion above to pack your new canopy into a rental container is a pretty damned good idea. Yes, it'll cost some extra, but you know what costs even more? Breaking yourself. cavete terrae.

My ninth sky birthday is in 2 weeks, and I'm still jumping one. Also worth noting: I'm a total cheapass cavete terrae.