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Me too, but now exempt having successfully deposited my genes in a female of the species.
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3 bungee jumps to my name, the last one off the Bloukrans Bridge... a wonderful experience...
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Tragically a woman in Columbia has died when she misunderstood the jump signals and jumped before the bungee cord was attached to her ankles. She and her boyfriend were jumping and his cord had been attached but hers hadn't, he was given the signal to go and she thought it was for her so jumped early.
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Sorry just read the previous thread properly!!!!!!
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Ah, that explains things. A friend of mine did similar in NZ, guess in his 70s and after a hip replacement.TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 3:21 pm3 bungee jumps to my name, the last one off the Bloukrans Bridge... a wonderful experience...
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I would be afraid that my legs would pull out of their sockets.Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 8:16 pmA friend of mine did similar in NZ, guess in his 70s and after a hip replacement.
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He was actually in a wader suit, went feet first.G-CPTN wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 8:24 pmI would be afraid that my legs would pull out of their sockets.Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 8:16 pmA friend of mine did similar in NZ, guess in his 70s and after a hip replacement.
Apart from TGGs mention of the girl, I believe another the bungee was too long.
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Ah - have we met?
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Twas 1DC who mentioned the girl PN.Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 8:31 pmHe was actually in a wader suit, went feet first.G-CPTN wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 8:24 pmI would be afraid that my legs would pull out of their sockets.Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 8:16 pmA friend of mine did similar in NZ, guess in his 70s and after a hip replacement.
Apart from TGGs mention of the girl, I believe another the bungee was too long.
In the week that I made my first bungee jump from a crane over the car park behind the The General Elliot in Uxbridge (know affectionately as The General Idiot), some French bloke came unstuck bungee jumping from a hot air balloon. The chord had been specially measured to give him a 100 feet above the ground bounce back, taking account of chord stretch for his weight, but they screwed up on the QFE, the balloon was too low, and he buried his head in the earth.
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Bungee jumping has been described as "glue sniffing for yuppies."
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The original bungee jumpers...
something else I will never do in life.....
something else I will never do in life.....
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I am pleased to say that bungee jumping is safer than catching Covid in a care home.
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I remember watching one of David Attenborough's reports many years ago (t'was in black and white) when he featured those jumpers. Apparently, before they jumped, they got themselves well and truly doped up on some local brew made from the crushed roots of the Kava plant.
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Having stood next to the tower and watched the entire proceedings. I would say they were not doped up,kids about12 jumped from the lower platforms
and the elders jumped from the highest platforms.All the women of the tribe pranced around and chanted and whistled prior to each jump,at the end of
the dayit was just this dust bowl emanating noise.About every three jumps a vine would snap, but they all appeared to come away uninjured,this was due to the vine coils straightening,the platform supports breaking,the fall of the slope and the days prior spent digging and softening the ground below the tower. Admission back then (1968) was based upon the size of your camera.
and the elders jumped from the highest platforms.All the women of the tribe pranced around and chanted and whistled prior to each jump,at the end of
the dayit was just this dust bowl emanating noise.About every three jumps a vine would snap, but they all appeared to come away uninjured,this was due to the vine coils straightening,the platform supports breaking,the fall of the slope and the days prior spent digging and softening the ground below the tower. Admission back then (1968) was based upon the size of your camera.
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Wow Bob!, that is interesting indeed! I cannot imagine what it must have been like back in '68!
Um, no, having visited a number of Nakamals and having imbibed plenty of Kava in the past....that is not something you are about to go and do on a Kava high....well not me at least!local brew made from the crushed roots of the Kava plant.
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As "novel" is a requirement, this one certainly has that.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pa ... e-n1275098A gunman who opened fire at a party early Monday in Texas, fatally shooting one person, died after attendees struck him with bricks, authorities said.
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The gunman was struck multiple times with at least one brick and pronounced dead at the scene
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A little Biblical justice perhaps?
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What's the price difference between a brick and a bullet? In UK a brick costs £1. At least bricks can be reused.
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Depends on how hard they hit him with it.Pontius Navigator wrote: ↑Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:03 amWhat's the price difference between a brick and a bullet? In UK a brick costs £1. At least bricks can be reused.