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Re: What Made My Day Today? :-)

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On 8/26/2023 10:28 AM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
> This is fresh from Iran's militia forces. Regular military still cannot 
> carry this out (they just dump them en masse in a vertical descent with 
> parachutes).
> 
> https://streamable.com/le3qlr
> 
> What is its use? On whose ass will they land, dick first, to achieve any 
> goal? Where and in what situation, the silent presence of one or a few 
> makes a big difference for Iran? And how would they come back?
> 
> 
> 


I had posted the above because watching it had made my day of course :) 
One of my cousins in the 1960s was a talented parachuter and told us 
many exciting stories in several occasions. He stopped doing it after 
his military service ended.

Several of Iranians in Dallas area almost as soon as they arrived from 
Iran in late 1970s joined parachuting clubs :) Unlike in Iran, you 
didn't have to have ties to a military organization to have that access, 
so they were fast pursuing that part of their dreams, along of course 
other stuff not available to ordinary citizens in Iran, like owning 
guns, fucking literally any girl around them, going to topless bars, 
doing their grocery shopping (and more!) at 3 am, getting their car the 
same day they decided to have a car, and getting their driving licenses 
in that same day... A bunch of blessings that were available to 
Americans without the latter seeming to appreciate them.

So one of those blessings was parachuting :) I didn't join. But at least 
two of my friends did. I was into swimming in those days, so I joined 
the swimming club that used a nearby high-school's all-year-round state 
of the art swimming pools (two of them). Unbelievably cheap, and always 
available. Often with Texas girls of top model-type bodies mixed in! 
Mostly students of that same high school. In Tehran, that would've been 
a dream to have. In here, 1978 Dallas, as easily as paying I don't know 
... $7 ? 7 dollars a month. It was great :)

But!... Only as long as things hadn't changed for the worse in Iran. 
Iranians back then were quite welcome in Texas. Shah was helping with 
several research works done in Texas universities. Texans, in turn, at 
the semester registration times treated Iranian students as residents of 
Texas. I only saw just one semester of it, but you should've been there 
to see what the difference was between tuition for a foreign student and 
a Texas resident. So when shit hit the fan, Governor Clemens declared 
Iranian students as "foreign students" and we began paying foreign 
student tuition and fees.

Then soon my belongings in my locker at that high school swimming pool 
facility began to one by one disappear :) Hehe :-) Those kids.. Some of 
them knew I was Iranian.

Therefore, I stopped paying the membership fees and quit going there. 
Dallas didn't have mountains, so I reverted to tennis, which the 
university had quite a few courts for and plenty of people to play with, 
again available all the time even after dark with the fees automatically 
paid as part of tuition, and then added walking to it on weekends. 
Pilates of course was done every day in my house, using same book I use 
today :) (that son of a bitch translator... I curse his bones every 
fucking day)













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