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- From: QAA@psuvm.psu.edu (Tim Bieling)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Homos at Depth
- Message-ID: <92323.192240QAA@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:22:39 GMT
- Article-I.D.: psuvm.92323.192240QAA
- References: <BxvnE3.EKE@fig.citib.com>
- Organization: Penn State University
- Lines: 19
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- In article <BxvnE3.EKE@fig.citib.com>, glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson) says:
- >[...]
- >What I don't understand is why there aren't more
- >queers who dive. It takes some skill and education,
- >it's faux-butch (you get to strap a big knife to your
- >calf) and there is lots of paraphenalia to buy - dive
- >skins, wetsuits, masks, flippers, booties, and a whole
- >array of dive computers to obsess over.
- >[...]
-
- For me it was the costs involved which made it impossible. Two of my
- brothers are divers (I think one of them is certified to instruct), but
- when they told me what the basic investment in equipment was, the bottom
- line was way beyond my means (on a piss poor Univ. salary).
-
- On a similar note - I've always wondered why I've gotten looks of shock
- when I tell people that I enjoy target shooting (handgun/rifle/shotgun).
-
- -Tim
-