Skydiver Stereotypes

[christopherm 0]

I will be doing a series of surveys soon about skydiving, really just for personal fullfillment. One will be concerning skydiver stereotypes so I need some input from all of you. What are some that you have overheard wuffos saying? I'll post the results of the survey when I get them collected.
-I've got a tricked out speed machine that takes me from 0-120 in 6.0... GRAVITY!

[AggieDave 6]

Besides the idea that we're crazy and you'd have to be a moron to leave a "perfectly good airplane..." Thats what I usually encounter. That and they think we're rich since we can *afford* to jump.
"Wait...are you selling Penis Mighters?"

[LawnDart21 0]

My favorite stereotype is that casual sex happens all over the dropzone. I mean, c'mon, that never happens anymore........heh heh heh............
'I live to EFS"
Tom

[AggieDave 6]

Yeah, just in the planes, bunk houses, trailers, packing rooms, changing rooms..oh..right, not anymore
"Wait...are you selling Penis Mighters?"

[freeflir29 0]

"I mean, c'mon, that never happens anymore"
Not in the last 60 days or so anyway!!!!!!!!!!
"I only have a C license, so I don't know shit..right?"-Clay

[nws01 0]

But Clay you "clean it" in the shower so you do not REALLY need a woman, do you?
Nathan

[freeflir29 0]

"But Clay you "clean it" in the shower"
Well...true...but thats a poor substitute for the real thing. Kinda like "Astronaut" food.......Ever tasted dehydrated ice cream? "I only have a C license, so I don't know shit..right?"-Clay

[nws01 0]

[reply to}
Ever tasted dehydrated ice cream?
Melts in their mouth...not in their hand! lol
Nathan

[nacmacfeegle 0]

60 days, man you are walking around with a loaded gun, watch out, it'l come out like a boiled egg.

[flyhi 24]

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it'l come out like a boiled egg

I know why I'll be drinking heavy tonight; to erase that visual.
Thank you very much!
Just take it one day at a time, like the drunks do.
flyhi

[flyinryan 0]

The whufoo sterotype that really gets to me is that skydiving makes your penis grow....wait, thats not a whufoo sterotype, thats just what I keep telling myself....never mind

[Skyrose7 0]

I know skydiving costs a lot, but I meet whuffos who think it costs $200 every time you go, no matter how long you are in it. THat would be crazy.
Also, when I tell friends I finally "graduated", they say, oh, so you can be my jump master now? or, so you are an expert now? or, so I can be strapped to you for my jump?...well, maybe that one was the guy friends. I just laugh at those, and say nooooooooooooooo, far from/
The mind is like a parachute--it works better when it is open. JUMP.

[SkydiveMonkey 0]

I was talking to a friend before and he heard the total cost of AFF once (1200 GBP he heard) and thought that was what we paid for each jump !!
You shouldn't put a knife in the toaster - but you're an adult now !!!

[Schroeder 0]

That we have a deathwish. I hear that one alot.
Then I go on and on explaining the safety aspects, but that never gets through to them.

[nws01 0]

My sister asked me if I was suicidal. She said, "Are you crying out for help?" lol.
Like if I was suicidal I would spend all that money on a new rig, going through the training, etc...
I just do not get it.
Nathan

[Iflyme 0]

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just for personal fullfillment.

If personal fullfillment is what you need, try spankin' the monkey, pullin' yer pud, visiting the palm sisters, stretchin' the flesh... (oh boy, here we go again...)

[wingnut 0]

iflyme,
what is that...i though a person of your years(and being canadian) couldn't bring a thread down to this level.....oh wait your a skydiver...that explains it all......now there's a stereotype for ya........

"i may not go to heven, i hope you go to hell"-C.C.

[Beachbum 0]

aside from the "just flat outta your mind" types ... get a lot of "must have bigger cajones than I do ... I could NEVER do that"

[Magistr8 0]

I told some buddies at work that thy skydive season was starting out soon just the other day. When I came in to work the next day my boss sits me down and asks me if I really wanted to work here anymore?
He told me that having such an unpredictable hobby would not go well for some one trying to move up in the company. I knew there were stereo types but I think this is just getting stupid. People need to be more informed about the sport.
Who ever said comming down from a high was bad obviously never tried this.
Peter Rodrigues

[PhreeZone 20]

Don't waste your breath trying to inform them. Yes, this is a irresponcible sport. If we wanted to be safe we would bowl. Yes, it is easy to get killed. An average of 30 jumpers Die in America every year. Yes, it cost a lot of money and time to be in it.
Skydiving is a sport where you can do everything right and still end up dead. ALWAYS remember that.....
Cause I don't wanna come back down from this cloud... ~ Bush

[Magistr8 0]

I love the sport and know the risks. It is about the freedom and closeness of the groups that does it for me. To my friends that don't do it they always think that death will come every sat. It makes it that much more
Who ever said comming down from a high was bad obviously never tried this.
Peter Rodrigues

[Emmie 0]

First responce is always that I'm crazy, although alot of people follow that with "thats so cool". Another stereotype is the whole death wish thing. My dad is still half convinced that I have a freudean death wish.

[AggieDave 6]

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freudean death wish

Sooo, let me get this straight, you're going to die because you have suppressed sexual feelings about your mother...so freud was right...j/k
"Wait...are you selling Penis Mighters?"

[freefallfreak 0]

Oh Great Pooh-Bah,

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If we wanted to be safe we would bowl.

I knew a girl who dropped a bowling ball, from her window on the second floor, on a burglar who was half in, half out of the downstairs neighbor's window...turns out that bowling balls are dangerous...lol.
TripleF
"If you have something vital and it's sincere, you can communicate." Butch Trucks