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Another post by you that is actually so dumb it doesn't warrant a reply - shit, there goes my 'no further replies' promise - my bad lolll, but to answer - they'll go back home once the dust settles - and they're OK with that - just speak to some of them firsthand rather than getting your info from the Daily Mail or Twitter.

Going to break my 'no reply' rule on this one because it probably get's the cigar in a series of replies that have been fired at me over this thread. At least the Brit boys are anti-Tory and I'm not anti-Tory, that much is clear. A lot of the vitriol coming my way has been over simple UK Government policy, which they clearly don't agree with and which I back. I can accept that. But to make a 'suggestion' like this one is beyond belief. The biggest single threat to World peace at the moment is being prosecuted by a modern day 'Hitler'. He's the type of person who will start another holocaust. One of Ukraine's biggest supporters in the struggle against this tyrant is 'little' Great Britain. Legal refugees come to this country and are welcomed with open arms, not only by the Government, but also by the local people. In our village of 2000 we have 3 Ukrainian families being sheltered. A large percentage of our population are descended from those who fled the Holocaust and quite a few of those are and have been in our Government/s. You might 'suggest' but you most certainly may not 'suggest' ...anything. Please don't preach to me.

So, this will be my final post on this issue - anyone can see where I have my sympathies and there are no apologies for my opinions, right or wrong (although I have been told 'it doesn't matter what I think' in one post.....hahaha). The main posters, who I have nicknamed 'Brains', 'Pub Quiz Captain' and 'Nause' (select whichever one suits you, guys) are IMHO, symptomatic of the lefty, snowflake, apologist malaise which affects much of Europe these days. A lot of the stuff posted sort of reminds me of the liberal 'journalist' who was having a pop at a Tory politician saying that he didn't know what it was like to have to flee a country only to be told that his family had fled the holocaust...opening mouths to change feet lol. It's best to research your target before pulling the trigger. So that's all folks - sayonara - if we ever meet at a UK DZ I'm sure we'll all be best mates and share jump and a beer - at least I will be happy to do so. Here endeth my rant - don't expect any further responses!!

I'm intrigued - do tell how you managed it so I can try it if I'm ever dumb enough to do the same thing.

and here's me thinking that you should claim asylum in the first safe country you entered, not pick and choose from a menu of 'safe' options. Silly me - thanks for the lesson/s O Wise one - you and pub quiz Captain must be real fun over a drink or two ....

You've illustrated my point/s precisely. Thank you. (1) NHS is staffed with immigrants, but not ILLEGAL immigrants as these freeloaders are. (2) I'm hoping that you got the sarcasm in my France 'warzone' statement - it's a perfectly safe country for them to settle in as were the other countries they transited to get to France - just because the French and others are harsh on them (as we need to be) doesn't give them the right to row their boats over here to the perceived land of milk and honey. They are illegal, they are economic migrants (despite what pub quiz captain said in his migrant dissertation - yaaaawn - earlier). They need to go.

From your flag you are a Canadian....check my initial post......

If you REALLY need to ask this question, then you clearly wouldn't understand the explanation.

The greatest threat to the UK comes not from overprivileged ex public shooolboys in office, it comes from 'New' Labour, which is these days simply a badly patched version of the Tories. Lead by a limp-wristed millionaire Knight of the Realm and his harpy deputy, they would take us further down the drain that was started by the other millionaire new-labourite-warmonger Blair. Let's not even talk about the Marxist terrorist sympathiser Corbyn. If Labour want to get back into power they need to go back to being the party of the working class and stop being Tory re-treads. Until that time BoJo is the man, suck it up.

And yet we have our own citizens living rough/sleeping under the arches/dying of exposure/selling Big Issue to earn a crust - Wow - makes perfect sense to let all the freeloaders in, doesn't it??

Yeah, really awful in France where they just left, isn't it?? Total warzone ROFL ......the fact is the French don't make it 'easy' for them, nor do the Germans, nor do any of the other multiple countries they've transited to get to the land of perceived 'easy' benefits and free housing. Our veterans and homeless have to go to the foodbank while these wasters get it all. BS back at you x 2.

Refugees from France and other EU countries that they've had to transit??? Don't make me laugh. They're coming here for a free ride and so I hope they like sunny Rwanda. In the immortal words of Bart Simpson 'Hey immigrants, country's full'.

These people are mainly economic migrants, coming to the UK for what they see as a free lunch in a 'soft touch' country. Unlike Ukraine, where we have welcomed women and children whose men have stayed behind to fight for their country, these freeloaders, who are often in the main male, have transited through many safe countries on their way to their perceived meal ticket in Great Britain. If you don't live in the UK, feel free to zip it, your comments are irrelevant. If you do live in the UK, wake up and look around you. The country is too small to simply open it's borders to whoever wants to come here and is already creaking at the seams due to overload on our social services, all to the detriment of it's legitimate citizens.

Get yourself to Seville. Short cheap flights from the UK. Dornier/s up to 15K, jump all year round, although they cut off early in the hot summer months. Nice city to visit. There are BPA (I still can't say BS) instructors on site if you need a check out jump etc. The DZ has a house in Bollulos (sp) where jumpers can stay for a pittance or you could stay at the Domocenter in Bormujos where loads of jumpers stay, quite cheap. Many base jumpers skydive there too so you can get the in's and out's and make good contacts. Don't go to Algarve - last I heard there was a 1000 jump limit at the DZ due to safety concerns for 'inexperienced' jumpers. May have changed by now of course.

BA. Hope it all goes well for you.

As an ex Rhodesian serviceman, educated in South Africa (RSA) and an Afrikaans speaker (of sorts) in my opinion you are largely correct on the Afrikaans aspect. Although many Rhodesians had a smattering of Afrikaans, the local slang/patois which had migrated up from RSA had an amalgam of African/Afrikaans and English (called chilapalapa or fanagalo and initially used by overseers to communicate with the migrant labour on the mines in RSA, where men from dozens of different ethnicities and languages were employed) and which most Rhodesians of all creeds could use to communicate with each other. Afrikaans was not taught in Rhodesian schools but there were communities (e.g. Enkeldoorn which is Afrikaans for Single/Lone Thorn) where Afrikaans was spoken as the first language. Most Rhodesians seldom if ever said Yes, it was always Ja, your Brother was your Boet, Hello was Hoesit (short for hoe gaan dit) and so on. Rhodesian military slang, especially R.L.I. was unique and also used a some Afrikaans. Here Endeth The Lesson (just to keep the Biblical context going lol).

Would be interesting to hear your feedback from your trip. I am married to a South African who recently returned home to the UK , seamlessly, from Cape Town - hence my earlier opinion that this is media driven BS. The travel chaos thingie is real. It'll be more of an issue during the summer holidays (late June/July/August) when many families are trying get away to catch the European sun which can be so elusive here in the UK.

Never realised that Ryanair had a vested interest in who came to the UK - the whole scenario smells of clickbait kak to me. If News24 are run along the same lines as 99.999% of other media outlets, then it is BS.

Watched it on Thursday here in the UK and although I'm not a pilot, so can't really relate to the flying scenes, I thought it was brilliant - even got a lump in my throat at times which is unusual for me. I watched the original a few days earlier just to get me up to speed. A few years ago while I was at Elsinore I drove down to Oceanside? and saw - what I was told was...- the house that was used for the romantic scenes in the original. The whole area had been cleared and just this house (painted blue at the time) was there. Maybe it still is there? Also drove to Miramar which by then was USMC - wow, writing this now I didn't think I was such a geek.... as an aside the DZ I jump at in the UK has a pop-up windtunnel on it which was used for the recent Mission Impossible movie/s and a couple of weeks ago stunt men were doing jumps from a helicopter at the DZ where they set a canopy on fire - don't ask me how - and then cut it away. I guess it will all come out in the wash and cgi will have it shown in Eastern Europe...

Not too dissimilar to my Level 1 - primary instructor told me after the jump that I got confused when my alti went to 12000' (therefore showing zero) and I kept asking 'what height are we at?' like a bloody fuckawee bird. Then to the door...no check in, check out etc. just straight out! Don't remember too much about the freefall, until I was under canopy. I put it all down to extreme hyperventilating nervousness....still it did improve from then on and I now have over 900 jumps in my logbook which, in the overall scheme of things, is not that many but is a big deal for me. Blue Skies and Vasbyt.

I was diagnosed with a BCC (basal cell carcinoma) on my nose about 5 years ago. This was after seeing a Twitter post from that Aussie Bloke who starred in Wolverine and who had a Dr friend point out that he had a BCC on his nose which needed seeing to. He (Wolverine) advised people to keep an eye out for the symptoms. Posted a picture of his nose with a blemish on it and I thought, hey, I've got one of those too....Having grown up in Africa and served in the forces there I never used sunblock.... until I got to England.....don't laugh, the sun can get fierce here too. On a positive note, a BCC is unlikely to prove fatal and the treatment in the UK is free. I've had it removed and now have just a slight scar/patch on my nose. So to all you skydivers who live in hot sunny countries, keep your eyes peeled and watch out for little light coloured patches on (mainly) your face, and which might appear unannounced. And use F50 sunblock. On a more humorous note, there was a C list celeb here in the UK who got a bit of tabloid press a few years ago, having 'survived a cancer scare'. Turns out it was (only) a BCC, not really life threatening, but they did up their profile for a day or two. Seriously though, all the best to any C sufferers out there and 'vasbyt' as they say in the SA Military.

Quite right and something that FF beginners possibly don't think enough about. I was going to comment on this post earlier but because I'm a pretty mediocre OAP skydiver/freeflyer, who also flies like a bit of a plank, I thought I'd STFU. But this was one of the points I was 'going' to make, with the addition of, if you don't sit correctly (i.e. you have a natural de-arch) you can end up flying backwards, and at some speed too, which can be problematic for groups who have exited before/after you, esp. if you are facing up/down the jump run.

The only issues I have ever had with Seville are (1) they put up a 100/200/500 jump limit fairly sharply which, at times, can limit the jumps for less experienced jumpers (2) the shortened jumping day in mid-summer as you have stated already (3) the concrete hard/sloping landing area. There are plenty of off landing areas, though - especially important when you are last out on a 4 way freefly and the pilot will only do one pass lol. Having said that, I give it 8/10.

It was a hot topic at our DZ around the time they changed to B.S! I worked for a company called Union Transport International and they actually changed their name to UTI.....medical folk will understand.

British Skydiving (formerly B.P.A, now B.S. ) do an excellent calendar every year which is sent out with the December Mag to all members. I'm sure some kind soul at B.S. would let you have a 2022 calendar for a promise of a beer. A 2021 calendar won't last as long.