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Yep, me and Ben'll be there, you obviously met Rusty and Dave at Empuria, so come on down and get dirty with us... Oh yes, I live in London so give me a shout if you need lifts or the like. /s PS if you check the dates you will notice that there is no conflict and the boys will be at both the DZ.com and Langar boogies...

Congratulations JKA! It is great because a whole bunch of us dz.commers have got our A's recently. Can't wait till we all start getting our B's so we can really put together a kick-ass dz.com boogie. (who knows maybe one day a dz.com big way? it could happen) Anyway well done! /s

If you kiss your granny good-bye and she tries to slip you the tongue, is that a bad thing? (just checking of course, I haven't snogged my granny - yet) /s

Hey sangiro is your friend amanda still talking to you after we all raped and pillaged her guest-book? /s

Man, I drank all winter and gained 20lbs of flab - hee hee. Then again you're probly a f£%$£ing huge bastard and I better not antagonize you - how fast can you run? Seriously though, try Ryan at Flitesuit (Skydance), he can definitely tailor-make you something suitable. /s

The Pogues 'Fairytale of New York City' is still one of my all-time favourite sad, nostalgic songs. If you can find it, Shane McGowan's version of Sinatra's 'My Way' is great, really rough and gut wrenching (Nike used it as the soundtrack to one of their ads). Yeah, the Pogues rock alright. /s PS there's a very early Mel Gibson movie (from when he was still living in Oz) called Gallipoli - find it, it's bloody brilliant and v. sad.

Australia New Zealand Army Corps It's a day held to commemorate all the Australians and New Zealanders who died in battle. Although it commemorates ALL kiwis and aussies who have died in the line of duty, it does date back to one specific day ; 25 April 1915. On that day the ANZACS landed at Gallipoli - they faced rough terrain and a well-fortified Turkish defence and took very heavy losses. It is still quite contentious because Churchill was one of the officers involved in sending the Antipodeans in as the spearhead. South Africans have a similar memorial day (Delville Wood from the battle of the Somme) when we withstood the Germans for a very long time until they more or less flattened the forest around the South Africans. The handful of South Africans who survived marched out and were saluted by the German commander they surrendered to. Will

***Of course it is when all 118 are women!*** If they did it nude, it should count as a 236 way record attempt! /s PS now can you imagine the whistling sound THAT would generate?

Was it as good as the one I did about you feeding the roo? Actually I wouldn't mind reading that story even if it was shit, is it available on-line on the paper's site or do you have it scanned? /s

I hate that part where they make you get in the plane, and then you have to sit in the plane till it gets high enough, then you have to jump out of the plane and fall for a while (that part really sucks) and then you have that really bad part under the parachute thingy until you land. Apart from all that, I really like skydiving A LOT! g'night /s

So what net connection are you on? Pretty good for you guys being able to mail friends and family and post to dz.com (not to mention surf for porn of course!). anyway i'm going to catch some ZZZZ's now, hopefully tomorrow we will get some feedback off Ben and Wingi (if we haven't scared him off) later dude /s

Jason I have no idea if it is true or not, which is why I asked in my post if anybody had heard this story. So don't get too pissed just yet, because as I said in my post it could very likely be an urban legend. I was just interested to hear if anybody else had heard this story and if there was perhaps even a smidgen of truth to it. So don't get too angry just yet, because it might just be a BS fireside story started one night after too many beers. It was told to me as being true, but I was sceptical initially and still am. /s

Aaaaaah, Windhoek (pronounced 'vinthook' BTW, NOT 'windhook'). Man I miss that beer, I actually found an offie in London that stocked windhoek for a little while. The sausage is boerewors, actually that sort of translates into farmer's sausage - make of that what you will. Quay 4 is a bit shit now, I was there in December and got told off for taking my shirt off while sitting outside on the deck!!! (I mean if they wanted to keep the place smart they shouldn't have let me and nipper in in the freakin first place). What do you do on the oil-rig? How computerized are those bastards and who operates/supports the systems? /s

So why don't you join us for that weekend? If you can't join us in the air, at least drive over and join us for the pissup in the evening! See you at Texel Friday evening the 25th of May (and wear your drinking hat!). Also happy birthday, remind me to buy you a drink when we see you at Texel Friday evening the 25th of May! /s PS don't forget, we'll see you in the bar at Texel Friday evening the 25th of May (just listen out for the drunk foreign bastards and that'll be us)

Dude you rent that flat near Empuria and I am now officially your New Best Friend! As for the team, it is going to be a one off team for the nationals. We don't actually plan on training or dirt-diving or anything, just drinking lots and taking the piss in a big way on the day (my idea for the team's name is The Granny Dildos, but if you can come up with something better/more offensive that will be fine). Oh yes, I am from Seth Efrika which explains why I am so even-tempered and incredibly tolerant and good natured (not to mention physically and mentally superior and incredibly modest to boot). /s

darkzone Was this at Langar? Cause on Saturday I was pissing myself watching all the students follow each other like lemmings, further and further over the beer line. I mean Langar has THE hugest landing area I have seen yet and the beer line is very reasonable. Were you one of the 3 students on Chuckles' load? Damn, I wish I could have stuck around Saturday night, because I missed out on a shedload of beers! /s

Hmmmm, Thursday night in Amsterdam - how will we keep ourselves entertained... Sweet about the A, sorry I thought you were still on student status. Ben and I might be putting together an intermediate team, you interested in joining us?(come to the dark side Luke) /s PS right about now I think wingi is starting to get afraid...

Semi-related - perhaps you guys can tell me whether or not the following story is total BS or not. It was told as a true story but it just smacks of an urban legend, anyway here it is : Kid in the northwest of the states learns to skydive at a ridiculously young age on daddy's non-USPA DZ. Kid turns 18, decides to play practical joke on USPA DZ. Enrolls for AFF at USPA DZ and sits through ground school. On exit of AFF level 1 loses both instructors and goes head down. When instructors catch kid, he corks and keeps losing them until he dumps. Messes around under canopy, then hooks (under student main???) landing. Both AFF instructors realize they've been had, tempers frayed, kid gets chucked off DZ (undamaged). That is pretty much as the story got told to me. I think it is an urban legend but would be interested to hear if any of you have heard it or if there is an ounce of truth to it. /s

huffer, I have just run a search on ryanair and the only flight to hahn on thursday the 24th of may is at 07h00 which is omygodtooearly, plus I need all my leave for later in the year. There is an early flight the next morning (see my previous post). I thought this boogie was going to be in June, now it is May - which one is it? Yeah I will be in Langar every week from now until the end of the year, however I don't have my B-license yet so can't jump with you (in UK anyway). But maybe I will have my B by 24th of May. Just make sure you have your A by the time we go to Holland so we don't get any shit there. BTW I am at Langar on Fridays and Saturdays (I work Sunday to Thursday) - which is great cause JTs are cheaper on Fridays. See you at Langar (just listen up people normally hear me first...). /s

Just checked ryanair.com - only flight to hahn is early on the Friday morning (arrival 09h15). So can you pick us up at the airport and then we shoot straight from there to Texel? Also are you aware that the journey involves a ferry ride to Texel island?! Do you have any idea how dangerous those things are? Maybe we should fly into Amsterdam on the Thursday night and then you can meet up with us at Texel on Friday morning. As for this crap that kind of girly attitude WILL result in you taking serious punishment on the weekend - go hard or go home! /s PS if you are lucky you will get to see Ben using his 'Wile E. Coyote on acid' chat up routine on some lucky(?) girl - it is freakin hilarious (and the chicks dig it which I totally don't understand)

Yes it was, and I am still walking funny as a result. My co-workers reckon I must've got gang raped by a shipload of French sailors on the weekend because I am walking around like John Wayne with haemorrhoids!!! ha bloody ha /s PS you might have seen me on the telly, I was the one begging for morphine from the St. Johns ambulance people and trying to hitch lifts from the wheelchair entrants...

Just gotta share this one with you guys! I've been living in the UK for 5 years now and one of the first things I noticed here was how few houses have showers. Some of my colleagues also think I am a bit strange because I shower every single day (I'm always arriving at work late with wet hair). The locals reckon because it is so cold here and they aren't physically that active so bathing daily isn't that important (isn't that right Mike?)... Anyway, here's the funny part, I ran this race on Sunday and afterwards we each got given a hamper of free promotional goodies. One of the goodies is a new deodorant that sells itself as the '48 hour deodorant'! According to the label this deodorant is great because you can easily go 48 hours between applications!!! They are obviously selling it in the knowledge that most Poms go at least 48 hours between washes!.I think that is how some of the locals view their toothbrushes as well. Anyway, this just goes to prove what anybody using the Tube in the summer already knows. /s PS good thing there are no English people following this forum who I might have offended...

Marmite on white toast - deeeeeeelicious!!! Along with a nice cup of tea, it is the best cure for a hangover! It is also REALLY nice on fried eggs. Marmite actually runs ad campaigns here along the lines of you either love it or hate it. One good one is this guy who goes back to this totally hot chick's place the end of the night and you're thinking 'Phwoar, get in there son!', then she leaves him on the couch to get comfortable while she goes to make some tea in the kitchen. While making the tea she eats some Marmite on toast, when she gets back to the lucky bloke they start snogging. But as soon as he tastes the Marmite in her mouth he starts retching and leaves! It is really quite funny! /s

Uhhh, dude, just invite her to the European DZ.com boogie and introduce her to Ben and me... /s PS was that my cypres firing or the sound of an F-16 on a bombing approach over London...

Hey Jess, cut him a nice BIG slice... /s