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I couldn't help myself.
« on: November 30, 2010, 12:41:50 PM »
Went over to see what was going on at DU.  Same ole same ole everywhere.  Then I stumbled across this gem, all by it's little lonesome self.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9565468

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Tom Cruise Sits on the Tallest Building in the World
 
"The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the tallest man-made structure ever built -- standing at 2,717 feet high -- and Tom Cruise had no problem being perched on top of the building while shooting some 'Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol' footage. The 48-year-old actor had to take three elevators and climb over 443 feet of ladder to reach the top of the massive building. This picture comes after a video turned up recently of Cruise -- who prefers to do his own stunts -- hopping off the building like a flea on a string and scaling the side of it."

http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/11/19/tom-cruise-worlds-...

He can reach out and touch the face of Xenu. 

That was funny.    :lmao:   I don't care who ya are!  And Tom Cruise is a nutbag. 
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2010, 01:05:15 PM »
Must be a slow day for the slow minded. :-)
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2010, 01:15:04 PM »
I can barely look at that pic without my stomach turning, I have such a fear of heights.
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2010, 01:17:52 PM »
I didn't look at the picture, but I remember when the movie came out, Cruise was on some talk show, and clips of him being on top of the building were shown.

Made me dizzy.... :(

I could not get enough drugs and/or alchohol injested to get me to the top of that building. Heck, I couldn't even go up in the Arch in St Louis.
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2010, 01:40:15 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on November 30, 2010, 01:15:04 PM
I can barely look at that pic without my stomach turning, I have such a fear of heights.
You said it. I try to overcome the fear every time I hang the American flag or clean the gutters, but I'm scared out of my mind. :o
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2010, 01:42:24 PM »
My mom MADE me do stuff like that.  Been up the Statue of Liberty, World Trade Center, Washington Monument.  I get the heebie jeebies going up in an attic.  I suppose there is a part of me that is grateful now, but not so much really. 
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2010, 01:42:40 PM »
Being in a chopper, even rappelling out of one, or watching the ground drop away from the cargo ramp of a C130 doesn't bother me at all, and as a kid I used to dive 20 or 30 feet into rock quarries.  But I have also had periods of recurring dreams involving falls from high and precarious positions, and being exposed to the elements on the outside of a tall building is something I would cheerfully forego for the rest of my life.   
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2010, 01:48:38 PM »
There were many things of course that bothered me about 9/11, but 1 of the things I couldn't get out of my head were those people hanging out the windows at the top of the towers, the terror they must've felt.
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2010, 01:56:48 PM »
The Somali kid who tried to blow up Portland thought that was "awesome" Ballygrl.  Lest that get swept under the rug. 

Yeah, the Cruise picture made me very queasy.  Seems to me he's just a slight breeze away from being a mere greasesplat on the sidewalk. 
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2010, 02:01:23 PM »
The funniest thing I've seen concerning Tom Cruise and Scientology.

http://www.zipperfish.com/zf-toons/yaafm-11-scientology/

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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #10 on: November 30, 2010, 02:16:31 PM »
Quote from: jukin on November 30, 2010, 02:01:23 PM
The funniest thing I've seen concerning Tom Cruise and Scientology.

http://www.zipperfish.com/zf-toons/yaafm-11-scientology/

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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #11 on: December 01, 2010, 10:27:49 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on November 30, 2010, 01:42:40 PM
Being in a chopper, even rappelling out of one, or watching the ground drop away from the cargo ramp of a C130 doesn't bother me at all, and as a kid I used to dive 20 or 30 feet into rock quarries.  But I have also had periods of recurring dreams involving falls from high and precarious positions, and being exposed to the elements on the outside of a tall building is something I would cheerfully forego for the rest of my life.    

I have only been in a helicopter one time. Probably 22 or 23 years ago. In one of those that looks like a bug of some sort, zipping over Maui and Molaki with a former VietNam helicopter pilot. He was a crazy good pilot and the other 3 people in that little piece of plexiglass, had a great time! Going straight up along the mountainside, into clouds, only to come out of the clouds with the ground way far away!! The whole time with music blasting through the headphones - themes from Star Wars, Superman, 2001 Space Odessey, etc.

I don't know that I have ever been so terrified. An hour and a half sightseeing flight. When we finally landed, I didn't know whether to kiss the ground or finally just  :puke:.

The only way anyone will ever get me into one again, is if I am unconcious and on a stretcher... :o :o :o

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Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.

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A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.

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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2010, 08:47:08 AM »
Quote from: debk on December 01, 2010, 10:27:49 PM
I have only been in a helicopter one time. Probably 22 or 23 years ago. In one of those that looks like a bug of some sort, zipping over Maui and Molaki with a former VietNam helicopter pilot. He was a crazy good pilot and the other 3 people in that little piece of plexiglass, had a great time! Going straight up along the mountainside, into clouds, only to come out of the clouds with the ground way far away!! The whole time with music blasting through the headphones - themes from Star Wars, Superman, 2001 Space Odessey, etc.

I don't know that I have ever been so terrified. An hour and a half sightseeing flight. When we finally landed, I didn't know whether to kiss the ground or finally just  :puke:.

The only way anyone will ever get me into one again, is if I am unconcious and on a stretcher... :o :o :o



A night assault landing in a Blackhawk is a pretty adrenaline-promoting experience, trust me.
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2010, 08:50:45 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on December 02, 2010, 08:47:08 AM
A night assault landing in a Blackhawk is a pretty adrenaline-promoting experience, trust me.

I have seen them do it only in movies. But when you mentioned rappelling out of a helicopter, it reminded me of being in one.

Slide down a rope, way off the ground, in from a moving object? Uh-uh...no way, no how.

But I do admire your courage. Seriously. And again my thanks that you were one who was willing to do it.  :-*
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2010, 09:07:45 AM »
Quote from: debk on December 02, 2010, 08:50:45 AM
I have seen them do it only in movies. But when you mentioned rappelling out of a helicopter, it reminded me of being in one.

Slide down a rope, way off the ground, in from a moving object? Uh-uh...no way, no how.

But I do admire your courage. Seriously. And again my thanks that you were one who was willing to do it.  :-*

And the REAL men do it from planes with no rope, just a parachute.
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #15 on: December 02, 2010, 09:18:44 AM »
Quote from: docstew on December 02, 2010, 09:07:45 AM
And the REAL men do it from planes with no rope, just a parachute.

Yeah whatever.  Truth is that as far as forces other than the Rangers and SF go, every time we've done a combat drop since Korea has been a whole lot more about validating an Airborne division in the O.B. rather than about actually accomplishing anything especially useful that the Rangers couldn't have handled alone.
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #16 on: December 02, 2010, 09:39:39 AM »
Quote from: docstew on December 02, 2010, 09:07:45 AM
And the REAL men do it from planes with no rope, just a parachute.

you know that phrase....why would anyone want to volunteer to jump out of a perfectly good airplane?   :o
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #17 on: December 02, 2010, 09:54:33 AM »
The only real good reason is if the plane suddenly and unexpectedly stops being "perfectly good."  The Air Force is actually right about that one.   :-)
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2010, 11:14:30 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on December 02, 2010, 09:54:33 AM
The only real good reason is if the plane suddenly and unexpectedly stops being "perfectly good."  The Air Force is actually right about that one.   :-)

ouch.

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A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.

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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #19 on: December 02, 2010, 11:15:47 AM »
Why do people jump out of perfectly good airplanes?  Same reason men get on boats deliberately designed to sink.

More money.
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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #20 on: December 02, 2010, 11:39:49 AM »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFxFwdmJ1OI[/youtube]

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Re: I couldn't help myself.
« Reply #21 on: December 02, 2010, 12:34:31 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on December 02, 2010, 08:47:08 AM
A night assault landing in a Blackhawk is a pretty adrenaline-promoting experience, trust me.
I can only imagine.
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