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Did she know your language was this crude and ugly before your she agreed to partner with you?

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But does she have nice presentable tits? Maybe you've damaged her self-esteem if she feels they're not good enough to whop out at a ministry meeting. Until Canada rids itself of cruel monsters like you, I fear for the mental health of this country.

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I agree ! I mean if they are of the bee sting, fried egg or tobacco pouch variety they may not have the desired affect anyway. However, if they were of the block buster variety it might work, especially as it's a ministry meeting ! ;)

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Interestingly we had another suicide in my neighbourhood yesterday where someone jumped off a tall building.

This prompted me to look up suicide totals.

Canada nearly as many as the UK with half the population.

Why would people here be more likely to top themselves? Or is the availability of tall buildings making it more appealing?

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I don't know that but I feel you're failing to convey the key fact about this suicide.

When I lived opposite the Yard I'd wander in there on the way home from work to be told, 20' or 15' or similar; that being the splatter spread from today's jumper. I suppose there was a fifteen footer every other week or so. They'd mostly be launching from the 31st floor, I suppose where you are they'd be starting out higher so they might end wider; is that the case?

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It's the availability of Canadian TV that makes it more appealing.

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I wonder what the optimum height of a suicide jump is? It needs to be high enough to ensure certain death and not mere lifelong cabbagery, yet not so high as to allow enough time during the plunge for second thoughts to creep in.

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Probably not, as we met when I conducting a workshop for educational administrators about cultural and gender sensitivity in the workplace. :lol:

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I have the idea that there's a height beyond which it makes no difference; the jumper accelerates to the point of suffocation before making ground contact. Whether or not inability to breathe inhibits self-doubt I couldn't say.

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That doesn't seem to be the case with bungee or base jumpers? :confused:

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Perhaps they don't drop long enough?

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I wouldnt have thought within the few hundred meters of freefall that there would be any reason to suffocate. It doesn't happen with parachutists does it? Not sure
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It doesn't. Now I think about it, I saw someone jump from an aeroplane and survive parachute failure; he hadn't suffocated when he went through the roof that broke his fall. I heard him comment, succinctly, on his experience.

Right then, optimal launch pad height does seem to be important. Shame we can't ask jumpers to review their choices.

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Did they put a fence up to stop the jumpers at the place you used to go to in Toronto? It sounds very macabre.

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No. There were, and are, three floors of terraces, they were a nice feature of the building.