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haha i get the best of both worlds. i get to enjoy all the benefits of america,american girls who love irish boys is an example a weak dollar is another :p, great skydiving and skydivers and great scenery whenever i want without actually ever being associated with the bad press america gets(sometimes fairly sometimes not) or ever being accused of being a gun toting hilbilly so i have a pretty charmed life one major thing america has in its favour is it does not have a living breathing reminder of most of the things that are wrong with america on the tv screens and newspapers around the world everyday. i happen to agree to a large extent with bushes decisions on iraq and afghanistan and i agree with a nation actively defending itself but other than that the guy was a fucking retard and a disaster for your country

ok so me and two non jumper friends were having a debate last night about safety in kayaking and its regulation and peoples attitudes i was very badly making a point that from my experience of dealing with kayakers and certain other groups who take part in dangerous sports that they have an attitude of invincibility and along with unaccountability this leads to an unsafe environment. an example was we were at a kayak intervarsities and had been partying the night before and a guy came along onto the pontoon drunk got into a kayak paddled a few strokes and capsized. there were about 50 people on the pontoon and everyone of them laughed and waited for him to save himself which he eventually did. not one person in that crowd of experienced kayakers and even instructors/leaders did anything to, for want of a better word, give out, to this person or reprimand him for being so stupid another example is of a college river trip last year over new years where they went on the river on new years day and one person who had been partying the night before and was puking up for the whole night if not that morning and only got a few hours sleep got on the river the group got into a bad situation and either by freak accident or because they didnt have the strength to get themselves out of it because of the night before they drowned now i would say that while accidents / tradgedies happen in every sport i believe that in general skydivers have this overwhelming respect for how dangerous what they are doing is that is not prevelant in other less obviously dangerous but still ife threatening activities. up to the point were you friends would be screaming at you to get off a load if they thought you were doing something stupid(like getting into a kayak drunk) anyone have any thoughts on this? no matter what i said i couldnt budge my friend that maybe the regualtory bodies here for kayaking need to be stricter and more accountability needs to be introduced, he seemed happy that he has a qualification that basically just exempts his employer from any liability if an accident happens when he is in charge

Umm...I think that's why we have bigger guns than they do im not a us citizen and i voted yes. in fact worldwide respect ahs already been increased it is hoever going to hard when you have a failry significant portion of your population who think like that above. luckily for america most of the rest of the world can see that one statement / person / post does not a countrywide opinion make

i wish my government was half as proactive as obama has been in the last few days we may actually get out of this recession we are in great decision for personal freedom

ah phew

i really hope your taking the p but i have this niggling feeling that your not op are you saying that it dosnt matter that his mother was american because the fact he has dual citizenship disqualifies him?

why not?

the same way they can use an ordinance survey map to do plan their diabolical deeds should we burn all maps too? criminals will be criminals its akin to blaming guns for crime which ii was only jsut talking about with a few friends of mine it makes no sense im sure there are plenty of peole who have numerous law abiding uses of this service you dont punish them because some people might use it to break the law just like you dont shut down the internet because some people use it to distribute child porn.....you punish the people who use it that way

best first date is ice skating by a mile and a half instant physical contact and you can each make fun of each other and have a laugh for the night on the other hand it sounds like she is just looking for some cock so it probably dosnt matter were you take her

ah well pity you just blew the benefit of the doubt out of the water the interwebz gloves are off

i really really like this series its just so damn long between books that im going to have to re read them before i read the next one i could do with getting the audio books actually

damn it now i did it i was actually saying 23000 in my head as i typed that, damn sleeping pills

ah come on lads take it easy on the guy those 2300 jumps do look deceptively like 23 ah no it is an easy mistake to make to just reply with what your coach told you without thinking very funny though

im not american but that is ridicolous

maybe more people are just into techno? edit; for the record i havnt seen one skydive video with actual techno music in it

hey op this is just curiosity from a low timer but do you think there is any particular reason besides luck that it took you so long to have a cutaway? im assuming you didnt always pack for yourself but where you doing anything yourself that you thought ' this is going to reduce my chances of a mal drastically(sp)?

thanks guys i cant find any discussion on what red just announced though which is basically prosumer cameras that other forums have been saying will be taking superior stills than a 5d mk2 and better video than any other video camera of lower / same / and in some cases higher price ranges also with the modular design canbe upgraded very easily

haha thanks i did actually use the search term red scarlett photography ill have a look threw them thanks

and how if at all can these be applied to skydiving video looks like the 4000 dollar one would take the place of your sony handycam and canon dslr in one maybe convenient package any thoughts from you guys im just a photography noob? http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/scarlet.shtml edit; i tried a search by the way but didnt have any luck

thats a nice suit dude congrats

brand new mirage with all the options brand new cypress 2 brand new 170 reserve brand new sabre 2 190 no jumps 3500 dollars it was just that bit too small fr me

i heard quite a few horror stories of people being convinced to try it do aff or whatever when i was in the states this summer so im doing my best to not convince people who dont seem into it. its hard to not get into over enthusiastic mode when talking about it though. like others have said ill try and answer any questions as best i can

no worries thanks for taking the time

people on other sites have had this problem too the software allows me to add in an other box and it allows me to require an answer to the question it dosnt seem to allow me to have the other box as the answer

In my country? Yours? The US? Worldwide? its meant to be the world thanks for completeing it