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What have you done for yourself lately?
#11
RE: What have you done for yourself lately?
(May 26, 2024 at 11:05 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Booked myself in for scuba diving Saturday, (been a while, but I'm sure my wetsuit still fits), jumping from a plane on Sunday, and spa treatment on Monday.

Actually got the order right this time.

I'm always impressed by people who skydive. For me to jump out of an aircraft, the motherfucker would have to be upside down and on fire.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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#12
RE: What have you done for yourself lately?
(May 27, 2024 at 4:53 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(May 26, 2024 at 11:05 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Booked myself in for scuba diving Saturday, (been a while, but I'm sure my wetsuit still fits), jumping from a plane on Sunday, and spa treatment on Monday.

Actually got the order right this time.

I'm always impressed by people who skydive. For me to jump out of an aircraft, the motherfucker would have to be upside down and on fire.

Boru

Little known fact: if you jump out of an upside down plane, you fall up.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#13
RE: What have you done for yourself lately?
Done 4 parachute jumps for charaty, I recomend it!

On one of them the instructor was going through the safety systems...
"you jump out, fall about 30 feet then the static line pulls your chute open"
"If that fails, you pull the handle on the front of your chute"
"If you don't, when you get to about 1000 feet, an automatic system fires an explosive bolt to deploy your chute"
"If that fails, you pull the handle on your reserve chute"
"if that fails, just before you smash into the ground at 120 mph, cross your legs and hold your left arm up in the air, then it's a left hand screw when they try to get our body out of the hole and your relatives will have your wristwatch as a memory of you!"
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.

Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups

Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it!

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RE: What have you done for yourself lately?


"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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RE: What have you done for yourself lately?
(May 27, 2024 at 6:01 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Done 4 parachute jumps for charaty, I recomend it!

On one of them the instructor was going through the safety systems...
"you jump out, fall about 30 feet then the static line pulls your chute open"
"If that fails, you pull the handle on the front of your chute"
"If you don't, when you get to about 1000 feet, an automatic system fires an explosive bolt to deploy your chute"
"If that fails, you pull the handle on your reserve chute"
"if that fails, just before you smash into the ground at 120 mph, cross your legs and hold your left arm up in the air, then it's a left hand screw when they try to get our body out of the hole and your relatives will have your wristwatch as a memory of you!"

Huh.

First dive, after all the safety talks, I got, "Don't die. The paperwork's a pain!"

Which is, coincidentally, what I tell my patients.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#16
RE: What have you done for yourself lately?
The other thing they said was "you sit at the door, when it's time to jump I will tap you on the shoulder, then you jump.
If you don't jump, you get a size 12 boot in your back, this is called an assisted exit"
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.

Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups

Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it!

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#17
RE: What have you done for yourself lately?
Booked a two week holiday to Frankfurt in July.
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#18
RE: What have you done for yourself lately?
I try to forget my dark past and keep my mind renewed daily.
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