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How would you feel if you found out that your boyfriend had fooled around with another guy, just as a "fun sexual experience?" PS. I think it's cheating, that's just my personal opinion. PPS. If you do it anyway, get video. -- Brian

Hi, I just wanted to point out that here in the forums, typing in all capital letters means that you are yelling at everybody. You will get a lot more responses if you turn off the capslock key. By the way, repack time is 120 days. -- Brian

Sorry to bring an old thread back to the top, I just wanted to thank everybody for their advice. I finally got back to the dz today and nailed a 5-second and a 10-second delay

I thought answering all of these would be funny. It isn't. I got to 169 and stopped. I have to sleep off a very loud concert with an awesome double encore now. Enjoy. 1. Thats just the way it works. 2. Unsliced bread. 3. Like a normal chair but backwards. 4. Purplish. 5. Somebody paid attention to the acting on Baywatch? 6. Sure, why not. 7. You wish. The meter is like an odometer, it goes up no matter what direction you are going. 8. Is it a liberal Congress or a conservative Congress? 9. Sure. Wordplay is fun, isn' it? 10. Babies. 11. That's what they call themselves when we aren't watching. 12. Only if you want to get wet. 13. No. Jesus, wordplay gets old after a while. 14. This seemed like a good idea when I started. 15. They have infinitely many halflives. Pay attention in physics, people! 16. Freedom. Just look at the Talibab. 17. Let's just say that they stay warm. 18. The universe would implode. 19. If the elevator ran fast enough. 20. Lust has 20/20 vision. Unless you are drunk. 21. Nope, try cud. 22. I've seen my share of ugly babies. 23. The leftover parts of pork. 24. Spam is not artificial meat. 25. Frap helmets looks cool. 26. Something shrinks... 27. If you don't want to get caught. 28. They don't make 'em any other way. 29. You can, if you like jail. 30. Book-with-words-of-the-same-meaning. 31. The guy that invented the word thought he was being funny. 32. Cardboard boxes. 33. Sour-sour cream is nasty. 34. Set is short for setup. 35. I do not want to discuss quantum physics right now. 36. Inheritance. 37. No, of course not, the belts him. 38. "Stephanie" is the cheap slut of invention who screws around with the father of invention. 39. Ask again later. 40. Women don't, men do. Draw your own conclusions. 41. Because I am right and they are wrong, god dammit. 42. Emergencies. 43. That would be funny. I'll have to remember it for Xmas. 44. No. He only wants people who want to die to be able to kill themselves. 45. "All right everybody: We're gonna go for the 4-point 225-way, then breakoff" 46. You can send cargo in a car and a shipment in a ship. 47. Greed. 48. He has his own car, smart ass. 49. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_173.html 50. PETA would have you arrested for cruelty to animals. 51. A doodad. 52. You don't recite a play, you perform it. 53. Blind people can get a ride to the ATM. 54. That would be a heavy-ass plane. 55. Once again, physics. Grand unified theory. 56. Yes (photos to come). 57. No, it is just logic of 1

For some reason, I have an incredible urge to run out and base jump... -- Brian

...turns out it was just the Golden Knights. The whole story: http://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/wednesday/news_3.html -- Brian

Thanks for the link! They have pretty much exactly what I was looking for. -- Brian

I'm still on student status, but I'm looking at my own set of goggles because the student ones are occasionaly smudged, and god knows how many people have worn them before me. Plus, they seem pretty cheap. Anyway, I wear glasses, and the glasses, helmet, kroops-style goggle combo can get pretty uncomfortable. I was wondering if anybody knows about any Torsan style goggles that you can have presciption lenses put in. Barring that, how safe would it be to wear my cheapie prescription sunglasses without the goggles over the top? -- Brian

True, and Bill made class fun anyway. But knowing that I made a 4 hour round trip to sit in a room all day, that would have been tough. -- Brian

Must be a real bummer to take the class then not jump... When I took it, the only think that kept me awake was the excitement of knowing I was jumping when it was done. -- Brian

This particular Falling Illini is glad the he couldn't get a ride ended sleeping until noon... -- Brian

w00t! Me too! Only 19 though, but at least I can get into the bars around here now. And Marc: so it doesn't look good for rides this weekend? Damn.

Just had to share this link: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20011005_1305.html

Hey Marc! It's always a little wierd to run into people you know in real life out on the internet somewhere. I was planning on talking to somebody the next time I can get out to the DZ, and was really trying to find out what I could work on in the dorms. I've been arching everywhere for the last couple of days, and it's becoming a lot easier to "just do," without having to go through the whole "ok, point toes, dick out, let go, arms out" thought process. I'm determined to get it right next time, dammit.

I don't really get it either, and I don't think any of the instructors there like the system that much either. Beginners are encouraged to do a static line progression, to the point that they almost discourage aff.

I would love to try the first jump of an AFF course to see if it helps, but my local dz is fairly small and does AFF with three tandem jumps followed by the rest of the jumps with one instructor. Another dz is an option, but I'm in college, without a car, and this is the only dz that the skydive club gives rides to.

I just finished my 8th jump on a static line progression, a repeat of the 5 second delay. It went horribly. I lost my stability right off of the strut, made a complete roll, thought I had it stopped, then ended up on my back again. I reached the 5 count on my back, so I pulled. I had a nasty stepthru. I had both of my arms wrapped in the risers, and I was upside down (feet in the lines) under a good canopy. I got my feet down and managed to pull my arms out of the twisted risers and flew the canopy in just fine. The part that scares me is that I stepped through on my hop 'n pop also (again, nothing serious, my arm wrapped in the riser, I got out of it and flew the canopy in). Most of the people that I have talked to haven't had 2 stepthrus ever, let alone in 3 jumps. I also took a gentle tumble on my first attempt at the 5 second, and got lucky that I was on my belly when pull time came around. So I guess my question is: What am I doing wrong? I went from a sloppy arch on the hop 'n pop to trying really hard on the delays, and it still didn't work. I'm really concerned. I've gotten lucky that I didn't have to cut away on either of those stepthru's, and I'm worried that I'm risking my safety for something that I'm just not capable of doing.