Bob_Church

I guess the answer would be whenever they become complacent? Other people's mistakes can harm you on the plane, in the sky, under canopy and on the ground. Maybe one should worry about what other people do since their actions can harm you. We watch out for each other, we scan each others chest straps and do whatever we can to support and keep each other alive. But that has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. The sport gets a lot safer when we start spending more time worrying about our own attitudes and practices than trying to find some way to judge others. In that case, safety becomes an excuse, not a reason.

This is something I've been wondering about for years. Has anyone ever figured out the average number of jumps for when someone switches from worrying about everyone else and seeing the importance of just working on their own skills and procedures? The "why yes, I am my brother's keeper" phase seems to kick in somewhere about fifty jumps but I've never figured out when it stops, but have observed it happening over and over again. Maybe 300 jumps? Or is it even jump numbers, maybe its some other factors.

"That is exactly what it means. I am that rigger. The 20-year policy was established before I started here, and to be honest, I like it." My only problem with it is that I LIKED having that particular rigger pack my reserve. I always felt like I could really trust it afterwards. I don't feel that way with all riggers and I don't like the possible hesitation of even half a second to give it one more chance to open that that lack of absolute trust can give me. I'm not the sort to just drop my rig off with someone I'm not familiar with then pick it back up in a week. I've even pencil packed in years gone by because I thought it was safer than the riggers I had access to at the time. It took awhile to find a replacement this time.

I think I've got a better idea.

It's the only thing that explains this. I mean, who else but those two could enjoy knocking back a few bottles of beer containing vagina sweat? https://www.dailywire.com/news/33949/beer-made-vagina-sweat-hot-models-goes-sale-amanda-prestigiacomo

"Which is different than when a young white man pulls a gun out and kills someone. That is racism. " I don't think we can know that until it happens at anywhere near the same rate. The records show that for every 100,000 white men in the US 2.1 are murdered. For black men, 29.12. https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/health/gun-deaths-in-men-by-state-study/index.html

Yes, you and I have so much to learn. I am considered a racist because I posted some years back that I do not like being in an area where gang bangers are expected to frequent and I have a CCW permit. Furthermore, I do not believe in open borders. Therefore, I am a racist. I was getting tired of Nazi anyway.

But why do cops feel that they have to be so much more careful when pulling over a young black man than a young white man? Even if the cop is black? You really think there is a one size fits all answer for that? How about cops just treat both the same? Because every time a young black man pulls out a gun and kills someone life for all young black men gets more dangerous. I'm not saying it's fair, but I think it's true. Another thing though, not so much about your posts but a sort of feeling that comes up in all of these discussion. That it's only blacks who die when dealing with cops. Cops kill twice as many white people a year as black. Yes, I know, it's a smaller percentage, but it's still not like only blacks die when interacting with a cop goes bad. No matter what your race is, if you force a cop into a position where they think you are going to kill them they'll defend themselves.

But why do cops feel that they have to be so much more careful when pulling over a young black man than a young white man? Even if the cop is black?

For fucks sake. Nobody is saying that. What people are trying to explain to you is that there are underlying reasons for much of that behaviour. Maybe some understanding from "the other side" is helpful in trying to keep young black men alive. You may not be racist, but the constant unwillingness to look at "the other side of the coin" is certainly a trait you share with racists. I just think it's critical to not confuse two things. 1. Because of how society has screwed blacks over the inner cities have become war zones. This needs to be fixed. This MUST be fixed. And I think that if it were actually acknowledged and acted on it could be fixed. I wouldn't be averse to a few politicians being shot, but shooting cops and fellow black men won't help. 2. There are things that if you do will get you killed. If you aim a gun at a cop one of you will die. If you get drunk and try to take a cop's gun someone will die. When you go flashing a handgun around in public you may very well die. And absolutely nothing about the first situation will bring a victim of the second situation back to life. Dead is dead. As for BLM I honestly believe that they will get far more young black people killed without saving any lives. If they'd include a few "don't act stupid with a gun" signs in with all the "no justice no peace' ones maybe they'd do some good for the people they claim to be worried about.

See, this is evidence of something I didn't even know. It turns out I am a racist, it's the only explanation. You see, in my twisted bigoted excuse for a brain, the idea that all of this very real and very documented social injustice means that a young black man who wants to stay alive SHOULDN'T feel obligated to do whatever a scared cop aiming a cocked gun at him was the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Can you believe the depths of my racism and delusion? Maybe I should take one of those racial sensitivity programs where, using small words and speaking slowly, they can explain to my simple mind the way having the world stacked against him makes a young black man immune to bullets. I've got so much to learn.

Hey, I found her. I guess her career just never took off. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1913758/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr662

Ok, but serious question. What about when the water went up your nose? Do you think that that and the momentary disorientation you felt would affect some people enough for them to not want to come back?

Just for the record, except for the odd visit somewhere else I've never jumped at a USPA member DZ. Oh wait, Lancaster was and I jumped there one summer. Now I remember that they had to take my USPA number and check it. That's the only way I knew. I'm not trying to go all anti-USPA but I thought some posts were going a little overboard with how much we need them.

Speaking of 20 years, there's some other rule in their. A rigger who was packing my rig let me know that this would be her last time because the reserve would be over 20 years old then. But it wasn't a problem with the reserve, it's just that she couldn't. She was letting me know that a different rigger would have to start packing it after this.

My second wife was in a Disney movie. Unfortunately she was the voice of some animal in Pocahontas which is a shame since she'd have looked very good naked on a, well, actually, anytime.