Flying-Wench

darn thing.. make a liar out of me.. changed!

awww.. defeats the purpose of the thread.. totally off topic.. why cant i change my avatar?

*shakes hand* nice to meet you. now you have! I might have to add another name to my list... oo a list? SPILL SPILL!

i just had pizza (lunch) tandoori chicken topping.. cheese.. BBQ sauce.. YUM

"be good! if you cant do that, be good at it" (in response to "take care") "i only jump with a parachute" (in response to anything) "... and thats why they invented beer"

*shakes hand* nice to meet you. now you have!

oh well im not fussy.. anyone! although hard to judge from avatars.. not having met anyone from here.. that little lego man is doing it for me though.

and you forgot promiscuous trollops allegedly.

Willing! But not able.. but i DO like bananas.. does that count?

i dont play games as a general rule, i dont much have time for them now and ive been played, been hurt and paid dearly for it. So in terms of playing games with peoples hearts, no i dont go there. Playing with someones ego, who is trying to play you, can be amusing. We have a rather arrogant guy at our DZ whom has been telling people that he IS going to sleep with me. Not a matter of my fiance, or that im going to say yes or no.. he says he is just biding his time to ask me *laughs* Anyway, i hate this kind of fat-head behaviour, so have teamed up with a couple of people to start some other rumours about "me and so n so" and just a bit of carry on when he is in visual/ear shot to bring him down a peg or 2! nasty? juvenile? probably! But he started it! (and he has stopped with the fathead approach to women thankfully!)

How? From a toilet seat? It's a bloodborne disease. The pathogen's vector is the exchange of body fluids of some kind. I thought this was common knowledge. All that AIDS scare-mongering has really misled some folks. mh markharju.. you may have missed the rest of the thread.. not debating the basics of HIV transmission (i think we are ALL aware of that). The argument here was that HIV is not just impacting the gay community, drug users or those having LOTS of unprotected sex with LOTS of different people (promiscuous behaviours). A great deal of new infections today are occuring in hetero couples in long term relationships, where one partner has strayed. Theres a whole set of cultural and relationship based factors here, relating to trust, etc etc. HOWEVER, just to remind all.. on HIV transmission: HIV is only spread through the following body fluids: Blood, Semen, Vaginal fluids, Breast milk. The most common ways HIV is passed from one person to another are: Reusing and sharing needles, Unprotected sex, Mother-to-child during pregnancy, during birth, or through breastfeeding. Also includes needlestick injury, tattoos/piercings in unreputable businesses and prior to mandatory testing: blood transfusions and blood products. You CANT be infected by: kissing, sneezing, coughing, sharing glasses, cups, cutlery, swimming pools, showers, washing machines, toilet seats, insects, sterile needles, protected sex. http://www.avert.org/howcan.htm Cheers! FW

??? Do you think AIDS was whomped up in a laboratory somewhere? Actually, it was - Mother Nature's laboratory. For decades we moderns have been minimizing and eliminating most disease. The benefit of it is that mortality (at least in the Industrialized World) is far lower, life spans are far greater (people in the Middle Ages generally didn't last too long past age 40), so there are a lot more of us. Mother Nature doesn't like an imbalance. Where there is too much of something (say, a particular type of animal), nature will somehow balance things out (via an increase in predators, for example). We humans, at the top of the food chain, have all but eradicated ANY source of disease that would decimate us (with the exception of cancer, but that may be due to the fact that because people have longer life spans, flaws in the DNA which would have seldom been seen, appear to be more common. It is my opinion that more genetic coding flaws appear over time, because those kinds of manufacturing defects stand a better chance of being passed on due to the greatly-increased lifespan for much of the world (for which you can tip your hat to WESTERN CIVILIZATION [this model does not take man-made issues, such as radiation, chemicals in the environment, etc. which can do the same thing at a localized and concentrated rate, into account]), and we have no natural enemies, save each other. "Nature abhors a vacuum" is a true statement, and nature itself is far more complicated than we can imagine. Decades ago, before AIDS was even realized, I predicted, based upon simple observation, that the reduction in disease-related mortality would one day result in some kind of "super-bug" that we humans would have no defense against. Well, you're now seeing it in action. The DARWINIAN law of NATURAL SELECTION (lest anyone think I'm some kind of Falwellian Bible-Thumper) is now in play. Those not smart enough or lucky enough will fall, just as when a Wildebeest herd fords a river: There is going to be some inevitable attrition due to crocodiles, so just be glad it isn't you. It's got nothing to do with divine retribution. With respect to Nature, I tend to follow the Jeffersonian model; in that I acknowledge the existence of the Supreme Being (yes, Him), but I also tend to think of the Almighty as a kind of clockmaker, the way ol' TJ did. He made it and wound it up and it's running on its own. What happens to us is largely what we make or do for (or to) ourselves, as we interact with (and have often counter-acted) Mother Nature. As far as I'm concerned, it can't happen fast enough. mh . This is an interesting take on the virus, and one that i tend to agree with (as hard as that is to admit, knowing that i have it myself!). I dont believe the HIV virus has anything to do with religions, or rights or wrongs.. its a superbug, its here, we just have to deal with it and TRY to minimise its impacts. markharju and anyone else interested in natural selection, evolution and the HIV virus, should read this: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no3_supp/levin.htm Ive pulled out a couple of key paragraphs.. makes good reading. "HIV exhibits considerable evolutionary potential and, with drug-resistant bacteria, may have done more to enhance widespread understanding of the importance of population and evolutionary biology to human health and medicine than any other example this past century. Although HIV was initially susceptible to a variety of drugs, resistance mutations have enabled the virus to skirt every drug in the biotech arsenal. In part because of this capacity for rapid evolution, developing an effective vaccine will be difficult." "EVOLUTION: Evolution in the human population could ultimately reduce the likelihood of becoming infected with a microparasite or of acquiring the disease if infected. Such changes in the host population could also impact the epidemiology and evolution of that microparasite. In this section, we describe simple models for human evolution in response to HIV and evolution of HIV's virulence in HIV-infected persons. We argue that it will take thousands of years before evolution in the human population substantially increases the fraction of persons resistant to HIV/AIDS. Evolution in the HIV-infected population at large, on the other hand, can proceed at an extremely high rate. On epidemiologic grounds, it is unlikely that evolution in this virus will make it more virulent (reduce the time between infection and the onset of AIDS) and may, in fact, favor reductions in virulence." "HOST EVOLUTION: As long as an infectious disease causes some persons to die before or during reproductive years or to otherwise reduce the number of children they produce, natural selection will favor persons who are less susceptible to the infection and its deleterious effects. In the case of HIV, some evidence exists for inherited variation in the likelihood of HIV infection and in the rate of progression to AIDS among HIV-infected persons (8,9). On the other hand, even under optimal conditions for rapid evolution—disease resistance is complete and determined by the genotype at a single locus—if the resistance gene is initially rare, it will take millennia before a substantial fraction of the population is of the resistant genotype." Cheers FW

Nice for some! The rest of us have to stay here a little longer to cover your slack arse . aww.. i work weird hours.. 7:30am - 4:00pm.. and my ass dont take much to cover

Plug it in while still wet. Then post and tell us what happened. awww.. damn man, that would have been fun about 8 hours ago *winks* tell you what.. if it happens again at work tomorrow.. ill give it a whirl.. *grins* oh bring on the weekend.. its sad that im looking for silly things to do to get a cheap thrill!

im leaving work in 3 minutes! wa-hoo!

zero zilch.. 0.. never been to the US! but have been to most states in Australia , all except WA.. and yes im in a confused state most of the time too.. i blame too much sunburn.

so much fucking.. so little time.

shh.. some of us are trying to get laid oh im so bad. what do you do?

*tsk* fuckity fuck. completely off thread topic.. (its not worth starting a new thread) but i just dropped my earphone piece thingy into my cup of tea. NOW what do i do with it?

i best go get myself laid.. oh wait.. *slaps head*

i have just realised that there are some truly incredible individuals in my life.. you know who you are *big hugs* xxFW

wow!

how do they cope with freefall? not thinking of trying it.. crikey.. i love my puppy too much to risk that. but just interested.. i guess they wouldnt have the mental f**k to deal with.. lol

Great website Freethfly.. i have added it to my favorites! cheers xx FW

do animals normally handle that kind of thing well? i guess if they are used to it... i doubt our pilot would let me crazy kelpie in the plane.. shed try to jump out the windscreen like she does in the car. hwo would a dog go in freefall? im guessing it has been done.. any refs to it?