PeregrineFalcon

Like I care about gaining ground with any chick reading this stuff. Think about that. Edit to add: No offense to any woman on this site. What I meant was that I don't understand anyone who uses the internet "to [gain] ground with ANY chick." LMAO. "Yeah, I'll bet I can really gain ground with the chicks on this site." ROFL!!! Basically, I'm drunk and in a hotel in a rural area with nothing to do. Not looking to gain ground with any chick

I once dated a librarian. Actually, I keep meaning to look into libertarianism. I just keep putting it off.

First of all, I'll tell you that my kids LOVE my sister's kids. However, on several occasions, she has made them cry by canceling at the last minute. We tell them they'll be seeing their cousins, they get excited, the bitch of a sister cancels because she "doesn't feel like driving" or doesn't "feel like having guests" or some other bullshit and my kids cry. So, I stopped interacting with her all together. This year, she invites the whole family to Thanksgiving dinner at her place. My mother talks me into accepting. My parents have been letting her stay in a house they own rent free for the last six years because she's a single mom. However, she spends tons of money on weekend get-aways to the wine country in Napa or Marin or whatever. My parents have lost $1600 a month all this time. They told her a few months ago that they can't do it any longer and have to sell the house by March. Today, unfortunately, she got laid off her job. It really sucks. She called me in the morning and cancelled Thanksgiving. I offered to cook the dinner and pay for everything and she hung up. I called back an hour later and offered again to cook the dinner...offered to pay for it...offered her my hotel room for tonight to allow her to relax for tonight. Guaranteed that my father would be mollified in any possible criticism that he might have (got his word on it) and offered her $300 to pay for Christmas presents for her kids. So, Thanksgiving was on, and we got in the car and were on our way. Half way there, my mom calls me, broken-hearted saying that our parents were no longer invited. Oh...and all the food that my mom had already bought? My sister TOOK IT after she said she couldn't come. So, I'm in my sister's town...I made sure that my kids saw their cousins and are sleeping over there. But I couldn't in good conscience stay for Thanksgiving knowing that the food we would be eaten was bought by our parents who were not invited...who paid for a woman in her mid-thirties to live rent free for so many years. Tomorrow morning, I head back home and will have Thanksgiving at my Grandmothers. The extended family is Roman Catholic and by law we have a huge family. So there will still be plenty of people there. But, I'm leaving my sister and her two children at home. I couldn't stand it there any longer. The end. Shit, if you read that whole post, I'm sorry for wasting your time. I just needed to rant.

That's because they realized that they only had two really good actors on the show, Picard and Data (Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner). Once they realized that those were the best actors, they tailored a lot of the episodes around them. It took a year for them to figure this out.

I don't understand the insult in calling someone a "fucker." It would be horrible if I were not a fucker. I'm so glad that I'm a fucker. Crap, I'm thinking about fucking and on the television, Queen Elizabeth just came on the screen. Now I'm limp. No longer a fucker, I guess.

The best cliffhanger in all of television belongs to Star Trek The Next Generation. Picard has been turned into a Borg. LaForge has made a weapon that is supposed to destroy the cube. Picard as Locutus tells the Enterprise that "resistance is futile." Riker just looks at the screen and says, "Lt. Worf...FIRE!" And the fucking season ends!! Best cliffhanger EVER! Of course, the first episode of the next season was disappointing, but still. No better cliffhanger in all of television than that.

I had never heard that before! You're right! Maybe... a gay Jack' posed for that picture? Chuck His name may have actually been Jack Diamond. Of course, "Jack" is a nickname for "John" so maybe his name was Johnny Diamond. Now, if that's not a name for the lead actor of Oklahoma, I don't know what is.

"Chuck" was once a term of affection for a female like "honey" "darling." Othello calls Desdemona it. On a completely different topic. What's the gayest looking face card? My opinion is the Jack of Diamonds. Take a look.

Pound sign. As for the planet that's tilted to it's side...the answer is Uranus.

Dude, I wouldn't have even THOUGHT to stand it up in that situation. You got balls. Was it the sort of thing where you were preparing to PLF and it just happened to be a perfect flare, or were you planning to stand it up the whole time? To the people who mentioned that it's happened to friends before, did any of them go straight to silver because they couldn't throw out the PC?

22. I always feel sleepy immediately afterwards.

Big newb here, so I can only tell you about my experiences. When I graduated AFF, I was taught to cup my shoulders, creating a pocket of air. Someone has to show it to you. When I was flaring high, I made sure I started landing near the wind sock to give me a judge of how high I was. I wasn't so near that I was in danger of crashing, just enough to see my height. I'm guessing you haven't done coach jumps yet. LickyMcSwirly is right. Get a coach jump.

Reece's Peanut Butter Cups

19. I really love your pie.

Yeah, when I read The Davinci Code, I started measuring all that and dividing. Nothing came to 1.618. What planet is tilted practically on its side in relation to its revolution around the sun?

Guilty. It wasn't that big of a mal and I landed it, but I was taught earlier that if the toggle has to be pulled more than half way down to keep her straight, then chop. Part of my decision was based on having to pay for the equipment lost. There was some ego involved as well, "I can land this." I did land it, but caught an earful from the resident veteran father figure. No lectures either way, please. I was just reinforcing GreenLight's opinion with an anecdote.

It was pretty average in my opinion, and for a season closer, it was lame. I was roaring with laughter when I found out Obama and McCain were in cahoots together to steal the Hope Diamond. That episode was hilarious.

Chelsea Butts is cheating!!! Somehow!! I'll catch her at it!! Somehow. DAMN YOU, CHELSEA BUTTS!!!

Not on this site, no. Are the trolls here trollier?

I don't think she's a troll. A troll is not this consistent...or persistent. As for the questions...they're designed to force you to think for yourself. I hope this doesn't come across as "mean" but when a teacher (any type of teacher) asks a student to "come up with questions" it's specifically designed to force that student to think of the subject herself. In your case, the more questions you can come up with, the more you're thinking about the skydive which, in turn, will help you become a safer jumper. The people on this thread are right in telling you to come up with some yourself. There was a guy who said, "Visualize the skydive and you'll come up with all sorts of questions." I'd go with that. One question I had this weekend was, "It seems like I'm learning something new every skydive; does this continue forever?" The coach/AFFi/Ti/DZO with 5000 jumps said that he was still learning. I found this to be true when he and another instructor were discussing winds at 13k. He still asks questions. You'll come up with some.

There were a lot more than just jtval that were CONVINCED Couture would win and are not posting now. I really wanted him to win, but damn, Lesnar's a horse. I didn't think, however that it would be due to striking. I thought it would be take down after take down and a boring decision. It didn't look at first that the punch was that devistating. I guess it crumpled up his neck enough to drop him.

In some parts of the country (and in the past) "dinner" was what one called the noon-time meal and in the evening it was "supper." So, maybe you're having a late dinner. Perhaps it should be called a Thanksgiving "FEAST." We always eat at two or three and have a second helping around 6 or 7. There was one place I went to where they would pitch in $5 each and weigh everyone before and after the meal and whoever gained the most weight after eating won. There was a lot of diabetes in that family.

The best have always been the local ones rather than the chains. They give the personal touch and the employees are not brow-beaten to have the exact ingredients or their fired. When I was making sandwiches in college at SF State, everyone would get in my line because I LOADED their sandwiches and didn't charge them extra.

I'm going to stimulate myself with it. Well, it is a stimulus check, isn't it?

If you write better I'm sure you'll grades will improve. ::sigh::