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Sorry Squeak! I've never heard it called anything else and I always thought it was European. Bad Eiley! Bad Eiley! (I promise I never use a 'z' where an 's' should be and haven't forgotten the letter 'u' forms part of our alphabet. Forgive me?) nothing to see here

If it was as quick as the canopy collision? Yes please. The extra year would have been nice.

In Australia, welsching on a bet is very bad form. In the NT, even worse. As someone said above, if you can't handle the stakes, stay out of the game. And everybody knows the fooz stakes. nothing to see here

A guy decides to go to the zoo. But when he gets there, there's only one dog. It was a shitzu.

If you are talking about Batchelor (per your profile), he would have had the choice of a lap around the table with his pants down or ringing the bell. The vast majority of people choose the lap.

Huh? My partner died in a canopy collision at age 27. I can't help thinking it would have been much luckier for him to have been able to keep skydiving and then die at 101 - even if it meant dying while doing something he hated, like having a rectal exam or eating pumpernickel bread. nothing to see here

I would hazard a guess that it is because they have seen some spectacular crashes on the news and are hoping they will see them live. A bit like half the people at the Grand Prix are there secretly hoping there'll be a great big crash (but hopefully everyone walks away from their burning wrecks unscathed). I know when 'Sports Tonight' does their little bit on a swoop comp, they mainly feature the big stuff-ups, not the cool long swoops. But maybe I'm just cynical. nothing to see here

The Americans get to meet her tonight though: Tourism ads face US TV test nothing to see here

When did they pass the debtor's prison laws?? According to the IRS: I'm not an American, but that looks fairly plain to me. nothing to see here

Well there is always the local Ku Klux Klan chapter......they can teach them all kinds of kewl stuff about being DUMB AS DIRT and PROUD OF IT. But does the KKK pay over $30K a year? nothing to see here

Cool. Where can someone born with very low intelligence (but not quite low enough to be deemed intellectually disabled) go and acquire some? nothing to see here

Mine would be creepy if I were superstitious. My SO and I spent 2002 in America doing the DZ-bum-for-a-year thing. We'd eat Chinese at least 3 times a week and always looked forward to our fortune cookies. We'd spend heaps of time applying the little sayings to what was happening to us at the time. You do those sorts of things when you're broke an on holiday. One night we got our cookies as usual - only his was empty. I made a joke about him having no future as we analysed mine. Two days later he went in (canopy collision). True story. nothing to see here

we (N.Z.) often use the word cunt in a positive manner e.g. " man that guys a good cunt" means "that guys a really good person" I don't know where it came from but we use it all the time. I remember when Shane Warne was caught on microphone calling the batsman who'd just smashed one of his balls an "arsey fucking cunt" and it never occurred to me it was anything but a begrudging compliment.

Yep. I remember studying the Australian High Court case at uni (in Constitutional Law or Tax Law, can't recall). I do recall it was one of the more interesting cases we studied - the judgment sets out step-by-step the indicia of a 'religion' and different weightings that might be given to them in order to decide whether the 'religious' part of what was then 'The Church of Scientology, Inc' overrode the commercial aspects. From this case, we have a legal definition of religion in Australia: nothing to see here

We're pretty prudish on the sex stuff, I know. You guys blur out bum crack and boobies on Survivor I guess the replacement would be 'fuck' as in "Where the Fuck are You?" But it would be just as accurate to say "Where in goodness' name are you?" Or "Where on earth are you?". nothing to see here

Okay. Now I'm fucking offended. How dare you hash hash hash hash me? nothing to see here

Much as I'd like to, I don't think we can lay the blame for this one there... ...our Prime Minister's tongue is firmly embedded in your President's back passage, and Australia is part of the "Coalition of the Willing". But at least we get to say naughty words on TV.

Australia recently started a new tourism campaign with the catchphrase "So, where the bloody hell are you?" http://www.wherethebloodyhellareyou.com/ The Brits banned the ad because they found the word 'bloody' offensive (although they've since repealed the ban). http://seven.com.au/news/nationalnews/153941 Now the Canadians are telling us they find the word 'hell' offensive. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060321.RBLOODY21/TPStory/Business I remember having an American girlfriend over here who couldn't believe a TV ad for a bra had the tagline "Great tits". It was an ad for a bra. You buy a bra (in part) to make your tits look great. Are we (Australians) really so much 'less prudish' than the rest of the world? Is the tagline "So where the bloody hell are you?" offensive? (Leaving aside some of the obvious answers potential tourists might give to that question... "We're buried in Belanglo..." "Strung up in the outback...." "You left us to die in the ocean..." "Burned alive at your backpackers..." "Eaten by your crocodiles...." "Trying to avoid the 9 most deadly snakes in the world..." Damn. I'd probably have second thoughts about visiting here too... ) nothing to see here

Bloody hell! When did skydivers get so soft? The vid was funny. Sometimes doing the unexpected can be funny. Hell, I've seen the pilot put a plane into a neggy and tip the spotter out much to the merriment of the others in the plane (and, later, the jumper himself who certainly saw the funny side of it). But then, I thought the Mr Bill landing was pretty cool too. nothing to see here

Do you not support freedom of speech and freedom of the press? It's not like they made it up. nothing to see here

Agreed. But they're out of the weather and you minimise the potential of catching anything if you wear something akin to a full body condom... nothing to see here

Most aussies won't recognise that name. I'd recommend Toogoolawah. Byron Bay is way too far to drive. There's a boogie at Byron 1-4 July though. Two Galahs has only a learning curve camp listed for July. nothing to see here

This is the second such incident you have posted about. Rape is not bad behaviour on the dropzone, it is a very serious crime that carries a jail sentence of up to 25 years. What did the police say when you reported these incidents? nothing to see here

Heh. If there's one thing I can absolutely guarantee you is that, percentage wise at least, there is nowhere near the drug and alcohol problem during skydiving that there was 15 years ago.... nothing to see here

Did you read the extracts from the Supreme Court judgement I posted above? They were the findings of three judges upon listening to all the evidence. Those are the 'simple facts of the matter'. As I went to the trouble to research and provide specifics for you, would you please do me the courtesy of actually responding to my post? Thanks. nothing to see here