I'm outta here
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=22212Jim Rooney - 2008/12/11 17:28:03 UTC
Head over to hanggliding.org if you would like to see how a forum should be run.
So long guys
http://www.hanggliding.org/wiki/HG_ORG_Mission_StatementJack Axaopoulos - 2011/06/12 18:20:06 UTC
Have we had enough threads started about paragliding on this HG forum yet????
Ill never understand why people have to start threads they know are going to cause the same old heated debate that comes up far too often, yet they continue to do it.
Cant we all just agree to stop the pg talk? it doesnt belong here.
This is an HG specific site, not biwingal. There is a paragliding specific forum available too.
Now this I dont get:
Youre supposed to hate yourself? Thats what people say here?
Youre trying to ruin our sport? Thats what people think here?
Bile? Anyone who doesnt agree with you spews bile now?
Sorry Jim... havent seen anyone say anything like the above. Can you quote it?
You seem to perceive anyone who disagrees with you as a hater of pg, simply nonsense. We just disagree. I dont think pg piltos who disagree with me hate hang gliding.
Like ive told others... if you want to go... just go. You dont get a free parting cheap shot at the community to tell us how much we suck. Sorry... no free attack on us while you exit.
Well I see now that you are threatening to delete your account in a PM if I dont delete it for you, which I can only assume means youre going to do what a certain other poster did and start vandalizing and deleting posts, so you force my hand... account banned so you cant vandalize. Well this truly sucks. Threatening to damage the site just because you got pissed off is really messed up dude. You need to seriously chill out.
Accounts cant be deleted. It screws all the threads up. Sorry, I cant let you just start trashing the place, which is your intent.
You could have simply said, so long guys, not enjoying it here anymore, instead of trashing us and threatening to damage the forum, which is why you are in the basement now. A gentlemens farewell would not be in the basement.
If you wish to lunge even more profanity at me, email me directly.
HG ORG Mission Statement - Hang Gliding Wiki
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No posts or links about Bob K, Scott C Wise, Tad Eareckson and related people, or their material. ALL SUCH POSTS WILL BE IMMEDIATELY DELETED. These people are poison to this sport and are permanently banned from this site in every possible way imaginable.
Another hang check lesson
Alan Deikman - 2014/09/23 19:47:06 UTC
Amazing how when this topic comes up every time you see people argue the same arguments over and over again. It has been a classic (although niche) endless Internet flame topic.
I suspect that some of the parties that have posted in threads like these before are refraining now since they have learned that it is nearly (completely?) impossible to change people's minds on the topic.
For my part I will just refer you to the classic Tad Eareckson essay which I call "the gun is always loaded" which is a bit overworked but probably all you will ever need to read regarding FTHI. A lot of people will find it gores their particular sacred Ox, but I have never seen anyone point out a flaw in his logic.
The Press - 2006/03/15
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is urgently pushing for new hang-gliding industry standards after learning a hang-gliding pilot who suffered serious injuries in a crash three weeks ago had not clipped himself on to the glider.
Extreme Air tandem gliding pilot James (Jim) Rooney safely clipped his passenger into the glider before departing from the Coronet Peak launch site, near Queenstown, CAA sports and recreation manager Rex Kenny said yesterday.
However, he took off without attaching himself.
In a video, he was seen to hold on to the glider for about fifty meters before hitting power lines.
Rooney and the passenger fell about fifteen meters to the ground.
It's a fuckin' Sunday school. Lotsa very nice (read nasty) stupid people who never use naughty words all swallowing whatever moronic crap is fed them by any authority figure and enforcing it on anybody within rifle range.My question is this... is this a bar room or a community forum?
Gimme a bar any day of the week. We used to have all of our glider club meetings at a bar in College Park and I remember a few halfway intelligent discussions taking place.Cuz right now, it's a bar.
We've both been banned from The Jack Show - me for being right, you for being the sleazy little shit you've been since birth. And despite Jack's regulation about posts about Tad Eareckson, related people, and their material - one which you don't enjoy - I, related people, and our material still have a pretty strong presence over there. Not a lot of references to Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney nowadays - Ryan Instant-Hands-Free-Release Voight neither.
Been following the Tad Eareckson action on The Davis Show...
Still reading this thread?You are not hooked in until after the hang check.
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39347
Please explain yourself without deleting me
...lately? Don't think for a nanosecond that I haven't noticed the glaringly conspicuous silence of the Patron Saint of 130 Pound Greenspot.Swift - 2014/09/28 16:37:50 UTC
But Tad was right all along. Long time insiders are now using 200lb test weak links.
Op Op should have been writing an apology instead of a weak (link) cheap shot.
I used to REALLY want your miserable ass DEAD - or worse - ideally the way your buddy Zack Marzec bought it. But now...
You can't say anything any more anywhere EVER without getting your head immediately blown off - same deal as to why Jack can't afford to enforce his mandates about me. And I can - and WILL - humiliate you at every opportunity for as long as my brain and fingers are reasonably functional. Probably some of my allies as well. That's even better.
Your reputation is in the sewer - right where it's always belonged - and you're NEVER gonna get it back.
http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2871
speed link
Enjoy posting on your intellectually castrated inbred little CHGA forum.Jim Rooney - 2007/12/13 18:07:02 UTC
Wow, so this is what I get when I try to be civil?
Oh well, very nice. Enjoy being pissed. I don't care.
As they often say here on the internet....
Pics or it didn't happen.
I did "bother" to look at your pics. They're cryptic at best. How would I know they were component shots otherwise? Wasting pixels? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Riiiiight. Pics or it didn't happen pal.
I bring up the Oz Forum cuz I seriously believe you fear peer review.
It's easy to rant and rave here on this group because most here are very civil and there's no moderation. Not so over at Oz. There are also very highly qualified individuals lurking there. I honestly think you're afraid.
But of course you'll have an excuse for not going there.
P.S.
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=16265
weaklinks
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22660Kinsley Sykes - 2010/03/18 19:42:19 UTC
In the old threads there was a lot of info from a guy named Tad. Tad had a very strong opinion on weak link strength and it was a lot higher than most folks care for. I'd focus carefully on what folks who tow a lot have to say.
What can be learned from this "scooter" towing accident?
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23813Mitch Shipley - 2011/01/31 15:22:59 UTC
Enjoy your posts, as always, and find your comments solid, based on hundreds of hours / tows of experience and backed up by a keen intellect/knowledge of the issues when it comes to most things in general and hang gliding AT/Towing in particular. Wanted to go on record in case anyone reading wanted to know one persons comments they should give weight to.
Threaded bridle system
All your idiot Rooney followers are toast as well. You took them down with you. Appreciate it.Jim Gaar - 2011/05/26 15:44:33 UTC
Beyond that I'm a Rooney follower...