Linda's rambling

… you do not have wet dreams about the cute guy in the dry suit, but the nice dry suit on the guy

… to win a two-week luxury trip to Paris, all inclusive, and asking “can you dive there?”

… You complain over that a beautiful dress costs 495: – but without blinking pays 2500: – for an undersuit that makes you look like a michiline-man.

… we believe that every conversation about bottles is about bottles is about dive-bottles.

… assuming that all non-diver to understand what you’re talking about when talking about bottles

… the most expensive garment you own is dry suit

… the second-most expensive garment you own is a undersuit.

… you go on boat show in the spring and fantasize about which of the boats that are suitable to re-build to a dive boat / sink as to to get a new exciting wreck.

… you walk like a damned spirit in the auto parts store / Clas Ohlson to find the ultimate solution to attach the battery pack on the plate.

… VISA card is permanently in diving shops.

… someone talking about latex and you don’t associate it to the latest erotic fair.

… You sits in the closet and sniff at your jetfins when not dived in a while.

… You clear out and throw away fully usable clothing from closets to make room for all divestuff.

… You says no to best non-diving friend’s wedding because you’ve booked a diving expeditions on that day.

… discussing the quality of rubber gloves, but to work as a dishwasher.

… You know you’ve dived to deep when airbubbles from breathing sinks..

… You need your 100 % oxygene-tank even on land.

From old forum-thread (with some of my own words mixed in) from 2002 about that divers might get less blood in brain and therefore risks getting minimal brain damage.

Theory one: Gender balance

Fact 1: There are more male divers than female divers.

Fact 2: Divers like and strives for big apparatus/things.

Fact 3: Divers have as much blood as the next man.

Fact 4: A male diver can get a hard on just by seeing a calm ocean on a sunny day.

Conclusion: Big things/apparatus + not much blood + often hard on => brain damage, so easy to understand, completely natural!

Another theory followed that one:

Slow thinking due to brain damage causes panic to come slower. That’s why experienced divers handle panic situations better, they’ve dived so much they’ve gotten so brain damaged that they are to slow in thought to panic!

Protest against theory about diving causing minimal brain damage:

You’re probably already brain damaged if you start diving. I mean, considering what stuff weights, how many hours used to take care of it and transport to and from for just short time diving and what it costs you gotta be mad even to consider the thought. Like, what normal person would thousands for a flash-light for example!