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I never thought I'd agree with someone from T-Shirt Hell. Although it's a sad thing that poor ol' Supe died, take a look at this:
I can't get over the fuss they're making over the death of Christopher Reeve. It's like he was some kind of Saint. They talk about how tirelessly he worked to get funding for research to cure paralysis. I'm sorry, but am I the only one who notices that he might have had a little something to gain if all of this hard work paid off? The man was a human doorstop. If Christopher Reeve had fallen off his horse and bounced back up unharmed, and then decided to devote his life to curing paralysis- then I would be impressed. If Christopher Reeve became paralyzed, and then devoted his life to finding a cure for world hunger, cancer, or blindness- then I would think that this guy was pretty heroic.
Believe me, if I had an accident and my penis was turned inside out so that every time I took a piss it came out my nose, you'd better believe I'd spend some time looking for the cure for inside out penisitis. I think I would discover I had a real passion for it that I was previously unaware of.
In other news, my throat is still sore and my head is full of snot. While I'm suffering, I think I'll devote my life to finding a cure for the common cold. My search begins in my medicine cabinet.
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Date: 2004-10-15 02:29 pm (UTC)From:this guy agrees :D
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Date: 2004-10-15 02:41 pm (UTC)From:Still, I don't think Supe was necessarily heroic. He was just a guy doing what lots of other guys would do in his situation.
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Date: 2004-10-15 02:46 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 03:15 pm (UTC)From:Now, some bonehead who dies because they try to copy a crazy stunt they saw on MTV, well, that just helps clean up the gene pool some.
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Date: 2004-10-15 03:28 pm (UTC)From:Aaliyah died cus she was leaving the bahamas or whatever after her music video shoot, and she so overloaded her private plane with bodyguards and luggage it crashed..again very different than a person flying to visit their family for thanksgiving and plane crashes cus of engine failure.
Sonny bono is perhaps the least relevant example, but skiing is a very expensive hobby, and heavenly ski resort (where he died) isnt a cheap resort to ski in.
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Date: 2004-10-15 03:38 pm (UTC)From:I don't know the details on the Aaliyah plane crash. If her plane was way overloaded, then yes, that was pretty dumb. But did she know it was overloaded? Shouldn't the pilot have refused to fly that way? Someone made a boneheaded decision, and it might not have been her.
This reminds me of the Kennedy story a couple of years ago (I forget which Kennedy). He crashed his plane, and everyone was filled with pity. But he was flying with a cast on his leg, which is both stupid and illegal. 'Twas his own fault.
Downhill skiing isn't necessarily an expensive hobby. You can get a season pass for pretty cheap around here. Of course, his resort was probably very pricey.
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Date: 2004-10-15 03:42 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 03:46 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 02:59 pm (UTC)From:I wasn't going to say anything, what with all the tributes to him on my flist, but, well, yeah. You never really hear of anyone's unheroic efforts to battle whatever handicap du jour they have (unless you read The Onion, anyway). And he was lucky he happened to be wealthy enough to afford all the treatments that he so bravely struggled through, as well as contribute to the cause of helping others with the same issue. Does this make him a hero? Or rather, any more heroic than a sturggling person who can't do anything more than just stay alive?
On the other hand, he shouldn't be condemned for having a personal interest in the cause he's helping to support, either.
And Maddox is just trying to push peoples' buttons....though he is a hoot, sometimes. *lol* I don't believe he means a word of what he says, really.
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Date: 2004-10-15 03:46 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 03:40 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 03:42 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 04:19 pm (UTC)From:but now you can not turn the fucking tv channell here in the US with out hearing about it!!!
they are acting like hes a saint!!!
and in reality there is ONLY ONE reason he was cursading so much for the cause....HIMSELF......
because if he wasnt paralyzied by that accident...he wouldnt have thought twice.....about it...
and there are tons of people like him who dont have the fancy wheelchairs and excellant care he did....
I saw Aaliyah meantioned above....being a pilot I read the NTSB report of that accident....I hate to say it...but it was there sheer stupidity that got them killed...I have over 11,000 hours of flying a plane...and I know that if Iam stupid...that plane is gonna kill me....if that makes sense.
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Date: 2004-10-15 04:23 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 04:42 pm (UTC)From:Kennedy had NO right flying a bigger turboprop like that & with passengers...he did not even have an hour of flight time in that airframe!! He had about 300 flight hours....and alot of it was as SIC- second in comand...so he wasnt doing too much! Thats an experience level when pilots often become overconfident and are not sufficiently seasoned to recognize dangerous situations. Let me tell you if he hadnt of been JFK.jr they would have questioned his ass before leaving in that plane and with passengers!
The NTSB went over the plane and guess what? it was in perfect mechanical condition...not a thing wrong with it....so the accident was due fully to pilot error!
He thought I have the money and its so easy to fly...well he learned.
As for the little girl, I belive she was 8....I was 11 when I started flying...but with my father a USAF SR-71 & B2 bomber Pilot....the girl had to have the plane modified so she could even reach the controls!!!
She couldnt even talk to the airport tower to ask for permison to taxi and departure...her so called co pilot had to....because at one airport she came on asking just this "can we leave the airport"!!!
She was unfamiliar with directions...meaning when a airport told her to taxi on runway 3-4...and after departure to head to the west to avoid incomming traffic...se first was unsure of where that runway was...till her co pilot came in....and after take off...headed to the EAST...before a sharp manuver to the west...which was undoubtedly her dumb co pilot.....its sad she crashed...but nor her or her co pilot had any experience flying in bad weather of VFR conditions...aalyhias plane her even smaller plane was overloaded.
I do not mean to sound like an elitist bitch...but Iam 21 with over 11,000 flight hours...and over 10 type ratings....the FAA usually dosent grant the ATP (airline transport pilot licsense) till the minimum age of 23...I was granted it this september....I had to go through special testing at Boeing. Ive worked my ass off....and stupidity like kennedy and the child accident...can make rules and regulations that hinder the rest of the responsibile world of general aviation.
Flying is dangurous...but not if you are not stupid about it! But to me flying is my air to live.
I have suffered a engine failure and crash landing...and Im here today....I know what can happen and I respect that.
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Date: 2004-10-15 04:55 pm (UTC)From:I like going to movies about airplanes/airports with pilots and ATCs. It's like having my own personal MST3K session.
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Date: 2004-10-15 06:17 pm (UTC)From:just something about the stewardess hanging out Concordes cockpit window at supersonic speed and being perfectly fine.
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Date: 2004-10-15 06:33 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 06:41 pm (UTC)From:theres an Russian olypic team and a human heart on board!
oh and let us not forget the cruise missle going after Concorde!!!
I belive the Concorde used for shots in this movie was also the one that crashed in France in 2000.
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Date: 2004-10-15 06:45 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 06:48 pm (UTC)From:Yea I love disater movies too especially with planes! and this one tops the dumb list!!! but its cool because Concorde is in it!
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Date: 2004-10-15 08:08 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 08:22 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 08:24 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-16 07:01 am (UTC)From:Maybe it's because I'm not old enough to place a huge importance in the actor who played Superman... but I have just NEVER cared. I actually didn't really like him in Superman.
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Date: 2004-10-16 03:16 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-10-16 03:52 pm (UTC)From:There are a lot of people in the world who merit my empathy, an awful lot, and what I'm saying is that I don't have any reason to give Christopher Reeve all that much more of it.
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Date: 2004-10-18 03:40 pm (UTC)From:Reeve
Date: 2004-10-16 04:02 pm (UTC)From:http://www.livejournal.com/users/_boo_radley/1976.html