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bluelip
Jul 21, 2003, 5:06 PM
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I was interested until I saw the political statement at the bottom of the page
Mike Coles
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epic_ed
Jul 21, 2003, 7:23 PM
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Yep, nothing like the anti-American crap to keep you coming back to their website. A-holes...
Ed
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nomadeast
Sep 4, 2003, 8:26 PM
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How can you call someone an asshole for criticizing American foreign policy? There are plenty of things wrong with this country...
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allan_thomson
Sep 4, 2003, 8:55 PM
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[quote="pico23
Actually our favorite activity was making my brother jump off the roof with an assortment of homemade parachutes that we swore to him would work every single time. And every single time he'd take a 20 footer onto the grass or occasionally we'd be nice to him and let him take a 12 footer of the garage roof onto the driveway :lol: . Damn, we were sure we'd eventually be able to make one work. :twisted:
My Grandad did that when he was younger. He always wanted to fly (did his licence eventually), and so one day he went to a cliff taking his mums best table cloth. Underneath he dug out a landing pit, and then jumped and landed in the pit. I like to think in a small way he contributed to the evolution of base jumping,
On the other hand, his brother tried the same stunt, but didn't dig out a pit. His chute therefore didn't have time to deploy, so he landed heavily and broke his leg.
The things our parents and grandparents got up too hey! If anything, I think they were worse than we are now!
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the_pirate
Sep 4, 2003, 9:02 PM
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I built a hang glider out of quarter-round trim moulding and bed sheets. All together not bad construction. Flew off the roof of my folks two story house. An excellent adventure. Traveled a grand total of 40 yards or so and hit hard... real hard. No broken bones (gotta love that childhood elasticity), couple stitches in my head and lots of road rash. This is why I have to laugh at all the parents making their kids wear helmets while bicycling. Give death a chance.
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euroford
Sep 8, 2003, 1:23 AM
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i actually have a business trip to denver next week to aid climb a building. kind of ironic that they hire somebody from chicago to go aid climb a building...
well... they don't pay me for the aiding, they pay me for the architecting.
kinda bumbed that it was a short notice deal. i'm humping most of my gear (obvously i won't need any trad pro) out to colorado and i won't be doing any climbing. if i wasn't so busy and i had extra time to find a partner i would stay for a couple days and climb some natural stuff.
well, i guess i could climb a bit, for like maybe two hours on tuesday night.
anybody want to go sport climbing? :roll:
blahk, that won't get my fix at all.
now i'm just rambling.
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