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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • Canopyflyer@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your best fart story?English
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    2 months ago

    It was the Halloween boogie 1999 at Skydive Greene County in Xenia, OH. We were jumping a CASA 212’ which at the time was the largest jump ship in the US. It was Sunday morning, first load of the day and I was sitting up by the cockpit. The previous night was filled by a party and a ton of beer.

    At about 9000 feet my bowels started rumbling, at 10k I released. All 30 people on the plane started gagging. The pilots opened the rear door to air out the cabin. As any pilot will tell you, a fart at altitude is a dangerous thing.

    The Drop Zone Owner warned us that if he catches the culprit, that person would receive a permanent ban from the DZ.

    I was suspected, as were a couple of people that had been sitting near me, as that part of the plane is where the smell was most intense. But no one fessed up.

    I jumped there for another 7 years.

  • Canopyflyer@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Non-smokers in the 1970s and 1980s, how the hell did you survive the second hand smoke?English
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    3 months ago

    Oh god, the bowling alleys. The stink of cigarettes, soggy fried food, and machine oil that didn’t just destroy your clothes, but actually permeated your soul.

    Both of my parents smoked. My two brothers and I would take a pair of scissors and cut the cigarette in front of their faces when they would go and light up.

    I don’t remember how long it took to get them to quit, but they finally did.

    It’s just not the health aspect, but smoking is just absolutely disgusting. A smoker just stinks to high heaven and they make everything around them stink long after they leave. How they are not completely mortified by that, I will never know.

    Then add the expense and the deleterious health impact.

    It begs the question…

    What the actual fuck?

  • Canopyflyer@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•car insuranceEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I personally know someone who totaled 4 cars before turning 18. He literally treated the gas as an on/off switch.

    So people that bad at driving are out there.

    Truth be told, drivers here in the US are TOTALLY untrained for the most part. My oldest is currently in driver’s Ed and it is a joke, in regards to actually how to drive a car. I have spent a lot of time training him as I have a long history taking racing and advanced driving courses. I’ve held SCCA and FIA racing licenses and I have taken some courses that are usually reserved for police officers The only problem is I do not feel that I’m a very good teacher for him. But he has picked up some things, even if he isn’t up for threshold or trail braking.

  • Canopyflyer@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•ExpertiseEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Someone should have told my wife’s program that.

    But I can understand how that would happen.

    Today she’s looking to stress cells in a lab to promote a mis-folded protein response that mimics how it happens in the body. At least that’s how far my IT guy understanding goes. She’s found herself running a BSL 3 lab working with nasty micro organisms and that is not her field. It’s just the path her research lead he down.

  • Canopyflyer@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•ExpertiseEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Where do you need a Masters to attain a PhD? Honest question, I just never heard of it before.

    My wife attained her MD/PhD from the University of Chicago/Pritzker and does not have a Masters. She’s on the MD/PhD committee for her university and they do not require anything other than a BS in the field of study.

    With that said, it probably isn’t much of a stretch to just get a Masters in the way to a PhD.

    Me? I’m depriving some poor village of its idiot. I have a BS and that’s it.

  • Canopyflyer@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Your username has suddenly become your only means of staying alive. How bad is it?English
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    4 months ago

    I was on a 4-way and 8-way competitive team and we had sponsorship for most of the time we were together. When your training jumps are free, you do a lot of them. All of my winter vacations for years was to Florida or Arizona to jump.

    As to what made me stop, the team finally disintegrated due to personality differences. It was fairly acrimonious and people whom I had been jumping along side for years, turned out to not be friends at all. I stopped competing and did other things. Got my PRO license and jumped into a few stadiums, a NASCAR race once, and more than one air show. I stopped doing those types of jumps, when an idiot from the FAA tried to tell us that our final turn to land had to be over 1000ft, which is insane and not safe. This was at an airshow and we were landing in an airport. He wouldn’t budge on it though, because he was just a god damn whuffo on a power trip. I made a normal turn to final, which was about 300 feet anyway. I decided that was the last time I was going to put my safety in the hands of someone that had no clue what they were talking about, even if I was making money at it.

    Later at my home DZ, I landed after a pretty good fun jump and started gathering my main and just felt… Nothing. The jump went well, but it just didn’t mean a whole lot to me. I was apathetic. Add to that, I was dating the future Mrs CanopyFlyer and while she supported my jumping, she is no jumper. She’s never been on a plane smaller than a CRJ. Where I’ve jumped from Sport Planes, that are just one step up from an Ultralight. A lot of people have pointed to her as my reason for stopping, but really she is what kept me jumping that last year. It was just time to move on.

    Would I jump again? I’m no longer capable of jumping as I injured my back two years ago. While I would not be paralyzed or anything like that, a hard opening would carry the risk of making the pain I deal with every day a whole lot worse. It’s hell to get old.