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The irony here is that this bullshit will create more problems than it solves. "But it's a good thing people."

Mission Accomplished!

Isn't it amazing that when you tell the kid to rake the yard or take out the trash, they can find a thousand other things to do, but give them a video game and they can sit still for hours. There are many things in the course of a day's work that I'm not particularly fond of, but they have to be done in order to move on to the next thing. It's called self discipline and concentration. There are also a lot of lazy parents who don't want to have to deal with an energetic child. The direction society has taken in the last few years doesn't help. Physical discipline is a crime and so is getting a paying job for anyone under 16yr. of age. Getting a summer job at the age of 12 was one of the best things that ever happened to me. The example you've given related to playing rather than working isn't really solid. A kid would always rather play than work. The area of life where ADD/ADHD messes someone up is when they are in a situation where they need to do something and want to do something, but can't do it or can't do it well enough due to the distractions and inability to focus. Smacking a kid that can't focus won't help them focus. It might make them want to focus more, but if they truly have ADD/ADHD they can only compensate so much for a physical lack of ability with an increased desire to function. And as far as that goes, I don't think anyone has ever "willed" themselves out of a chemical imbalance. I'm not ADD/ADHD but I was recently diagnosed as bipolar. I spent the first 6 years I was aware of a problem thinking that maybe I had something wrong with my thinking, believing that I could just "think better" and my depression would go away. It never did. The cause of my depression was my thinking. If I wasn't focused on something, and even if i was really, my brain would take every opportunity to run off on tangents that would inevitably lead to thoughts about things that upset me. I would end up thinking about how I could outsmart a situation so that I could manipulate the outcome etc and things like this would leave me frustrated because as I'm thinking that, I also KNOW that it's fruitless and beyond my control. I didn't want to take meds. I was afraid they would change my personality since my way of thinking (though relatively uncontrollable) was a large part of who I became, obviously. And the whole notion of bipolarism was, partially, in my mind a laughable thing. I've heard people tell me they were bipolar but I didn't really see it as a rational thing. Emotional cycles are normal right? But I finally went to a doctor after I hit a new low in my depressive phase. It was bad. But we did the evaluation and he prescribed a combo of Prozac (anti-depressant) and Zyprexa (a-typical antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia and bipolarism) called Symbyax. Once it got into full swing I noticed that I was able to, for the first time I can remember, just not think. I could stop my train of thought and just have some mental serenity. Long story short(er) is that I was skeptical. But now I'm a believer. I was sekptical to the point that I really didn't think the medication would do anything noticeable. But it did. Point being, just because a diagnosis tends to get blanketed around on people, doesn't mean that there isn't a real need for medication. The brain is complex and amazing and its NOT immune to disfunction. Believing that you can just fix a brain with external behavior modification (spanking etc.) is ignorant. People have real chemical problems that need chemical solutions (natural or synthetic).

Buy gunstar heroes and play with a friend. Do it.

I'm now transcending the barriers of being buzzed into the realm of being drunk. Sleep (my .. most favorite activity) will come soon.

The beer is blue moon. (All comments related [almost couldn't think of the word there] to this choice of beer will be disregarded, i drink what i like the taste of) The food is shells and cheese. The womem is actually just one. The only one I've loved. Fuck what a night.

I think I might be bi-polar. Chris You can take do a line of my zyprexa, see if that fixes things. $10 per hit.

So now you're the LAST one to see it. Just can't win today can ya?

Friend was fucking around and poked me in the ass with a broom stick while I was assisting someone while carrying a heavy speaker. He had been almost doing it for 5 minutes then finally did. I dropped the speaker, turned around fast enough to grab the broom, pull it out of his hands, and went to swing. 3 times I felt my body "wind up" to hit him. But I stopped myself. Never anything like that before, or since.

It's definitely not safe to jump out of planes. I don't think you're using this definition correctly. If you look at the example given, then it suggests that skiing is not an extreme sport, but extreme skiing is. What exactly constitutes extreme skiing, I can't say, but I assume that it would be any skiing of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average, such as backcountry skiing and/or steep, technical terrain. So skydiving is not an extreme sport, but perhaps extreme skydiving is. The original question was, however, is skydiving an extreme sport. Interesting how everyone concentrated on the extreme part of the question. One "failing" example in the list of definitions I gave hardly negates the idea that by literal definition, skydiving is an "extreme" activity. I'm not defending this to be a person that's like "Oh man skydiving is SOOO extreme!!11!1!one" And as far as whether or not it's a sport... Often always

Yep - I still haven't a clue what you're trying to say. Recreation is by definition recreational - non essential and non producing. It is a consuming activity. Twin Falls is the one of if not the most popular legal BASE site in the US. Rather than try to harass those *totally extreme* guys and gals, they invite them to freely jump off their bridge as much as they like. In exchange they get a lot of tourists staying in their hotels and eating from their restaurants and grocery stores. That's about as far from draining as possible. I'm shocked other locations haven't picked up on the opportunity. You realize we just agreed right?

Jump for one's self. Don't jump for others.

He probably opted for the slightly less glamarous though also less embarassing version of what actually happened. The real story, we may never know.

*Ahem* This diamond ring doesn't shine like it did before...

I thought this was still a point of contention.

Did tell him why i didn't care for him. He told everyone i had been in an accident as a joke. I didn't know anything about his "joke" til i started getting calls at work from peeps asking me if i was ok. So, yes i did tell him i didn't care for him after that. Well then in that case... I wouldn't be too concerned with whether or not you were being mean Him telling people you are bi-polar seems like par for the course for this guy.

? That could be said for any recreational industry. BTW, tell that to the people of Twin Falls, Idaho. --- Skydiving has an active participant rate of 1 in 10000 in the US, so that qualifies as very unusual. Course, I once read that that's about the rate of people running 10k races, so take it for what its worth. I wasn't implying that skydiving doesn't have an affect on the outside economy. As a matter of fact I explicitly gave a statement that says the opposite. I was primarily thinking of the cliche phrase related to using fossil fuels for the sake of 5 minutes of fun. And yes it could be said for just about any recreational industry, but NOT every recreational activity is as direct of a drain on the societal economy. I'm not sure what you mean by the Twin Falls thing, but if it's what I'm thinking, then just because skydiving activities are a primary source/reason that a city stays in business to the level it is at, doesn't mean that the actual skydiving activities don't result in a drain. Guess I wasn't as thorough as I thought

I still have my booty call buddy. No worries there. There is a certain someone i told that i just didn't care for him, so now he's telling people i'm bi-polar instead of accepting i just don't want him as a friend. Well... to be honest, if you at least didn't give him an explanation of why you didn't care for him (assuming you previously did to whatever degree) then he has nothing to go off of. And as far as he is concerned, then you ARE bi-polar. (Many people who are actually bi-polar have issues with sudden loss of interest in people/activities that is relatively unexplainable to other people). Not that his actions are justified... but basically I can see where he's coming from.

But would you snort it through said pole?

The article also implies (the obvious imo) that sex between people in love has a lot more potential to be better than wanton sex. (Chose my words carefully as sex between people in love isn't always good )

I hear brunettes are rewarding to impress as well. But that's just my preference. Unfortunately, I'm not very impressive.

Also it's important to mention that as active participators in an activity such as skydiving... one is inclined to not consider it "extreme" as an outsider would. Outsiders don't always understand why a group of people does something that, at a foundational level, seems completely stupid and dangerous. Skydivers aren't focused on the stupidity/danger (careful now), they're focused on the results and experiences that come from a successful skydive.

Take it for it's literal connotation. Dictionary.com defines extreme as –adjective The average person is not a skydiver. That is to say, an exceedingly high amount of people DON'T skydive in comparison to the amount who do. As someone mentioned above... it is definitely a "fringe" sport. Skydivers fall from exceedingly great heights. Jumping off a roof is child's play (quite literally sometimes). Skydivers go faster (relatively unassisted by mechanical means) than any other non-skydiving human being will. This goes back to the nature of the skydiving community as "on the fringe." It's not to say that skydivers are "fringe" members of society, but they take part in an activity that is definitely... quite removed from the day to day lives of most people. If people didn't die doing it and no one could see people under parachutes etc, given that skydiving has a relatively low impact on the bulk of society, no one would really care if it existed or not. I definitely don't think it's "conservative" to jump out of planes. Skydivers pay exhorbitant amounts of money to be able to do what they do consistently and legally. Skydiving is also a net-drain on societal resources. Skydiving functions in it's own sort of closed economy that takes resources from the whole of society, and gives no tangible resources back whatsoever. Each jump could be your last :) It's definitely not safe to jump out of planes.

I think the wikipedia opening line for the topic is fitting. But of course... this all depends on whether or not you like the person who posted the article.

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