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Nooooooo .....
No BAKELA (me think) was de mann that did not like double BB .. double AA ... Commandant at that stage .. later General me think ?
So he (or maybe not he) decided a thunderflash and a watermelon makes a great way of showering his boss in red watermelon and pips ...
BAKELA ... you where a Captain for 11 years wheren't you ?
Shall I EVER forget GroBBelAAr coming out of the crater with pieces of watermelon dripping from him ... needless to say .. furious
So he (or maybe not he) decided a thunderflash and a watermelon makes a great way of showering his boss in red watermelon and pips ...
BAKELA ... you where a Captain for 11 years wheren't you ?
Shall I EVER forget GroBBelAAr coming out of the crater with pieces of watermelon dripping from him ... needless to say .. furious
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Gunsss,
Wasn't me that gave BB AA the treatment. Of course not being the guilty party spared me being a captain for 11 years. I recall the incident however 
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Now let me get on to paperwork here. It is a well known rumour that pilots don't like paperwork. However, I just observed an extreme case of this
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Saw a pilot and his chick, but boy oh boy, she's built very skinny and very straight, like a high rise building, not even a hint of twin peaks on the horizon
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Commented one of his fellow aviators, "He hates paperwork so much even his chick is formless!"
Wasn't me that gave BB AA the treatment. Of course not being the guilty party spared me being a captain for 11 years. I recall the incident however . Now let me get on to paperwork here. It is a well known rumour that pilots don't like paperwork. However, I just observed an extreme case of this
. Saw a pilot and his chick, but boy oh boy, she's built very skinny and very straight, like a high rise building, not even a hint of twin peaks on the horizon
. Commented one of his fellow aviators, "He hates paperwork so much even his chick is formless!"
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OK I WILL ADMIT ...
I was a Captain for 10 years ... how I became the youngest Cmdt to date I will never know anyhow I know why I was a Capt of long standing and ill - repute ..
Those days in Hoekoespruit .. Ja Orca .. Ja ..
There was this woman Captain and 10 very lus (eager) young Lieuteneant pilot's. Well I could never get a shot in as she gave too much away to Bitter Willem etc ...
What night after a formal dinner we where still fully dressed in fulle tunics, wings, medals ... da lot !
She gave me kak and I did not like it .. as man I wanted a pomp and nothing else.
So ... myself and JC (hereater referred to as : die stoutste kak in the SAAF those days) decided that well .. here formal handbag was open and well it needed some dressing.
Shall I ever forget how myself and JC had to decide who had the biggest kak. Well I had but when the bokdrol (those little srops of pooh that antelopes make mate) fell in her handbag .. man it was vrot (stinkin).
JC was the first to get the blast - as he had to keep the handbag open.
Well we went inside and dropped the bag next to her .. and strangeley all her followers started dissapearing one - by one ..
As she saw this (with the smell) she grabbed her handbag and it became her clutch bag under her arm. At a stage she fiddled inside to get smokes out and at that stage when she came out with a bokdrol in the one hand .. myself and JC left the scene.
It took 6 months before I was "caught".
Myself and JC appeared before Col xxxx (later General) and Defence secretary. He just bulked out laughing and just sad that he does not want to see us ever again.
We left his (fortified) office and was downstairs when I could still hear him laughing.
Well I did "officer on duty" for the whole Easter of '82 ...
Those where da days ...
Those days in Hoekoespruit .. Ja Orca .. Ja ..
There was this woman Captain and 10 very lus (eager) young Lieuteneant pilot's. Well I could never get a shot in as she gave too much away to Bitter Willem etc ...
What night after a formal dinner we where still fully dressed in fulle tunics, wings, medals ... da lot !
She gave me kak and I did not like it .. as man I wanted a pomp and nothing else.
So ... myself and JC (hereater referred to as : die stoutste kak in the SAAF those days) decided that well .. here formal handbag was open and well it needed some dressing.
Shall I ever forget how myself and JC had to decide who had the biggest kak. Well I had but when the bokdrol (those little srops of pooh that antelopes make mate) fell in her handbag .. man it was vrot (stinkin).
JC was the first to get the blast - as he had to keep the handbag open.
Well we went inside and dropped the bag next to her .. and strangeley all her followers started dissapearing one - by one ..
As she saw this (with the smell) she grabbed her handbag and it became her clutch bag under her arm. At a stage she fiddled inside to get smokes out and at that stage when she came out with a bokdrol in the one hand .. myself and JC left the scene.
It took 6 months before I was "caught".
Myself and JC appeared before Col xxxx (later General) and Defence secretary. He just bulked out laughing and just sad that he does not want to see us ever again.
We left his (fortified) office and was downstairs when I could still hear him laughing.
Well I did "officer on duty" for the whole Easter of '82 ...
Those where da days ...
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Sorry Bert .. and I mean I turned out to be a clean shaven man ... turd in the place type of person when we met end of last year ...
..... or what ... mate I gave up on the Tassie's ... take DON SIMON - Sangria (alcohol content is higher )
..... or what ... mate I gave up on the Tassie's ... take DON SIMON - Sangria (alcohol content is higher )
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campfire stories
I think with a bit more high volume alcohol and some more of that for Guns, were gonna sit here all night long till morning come......hope u okes brought some extra wood and mix.....hic....thanks guns and bakela keep um coming....hic..
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Lo Flutterbye ...
Was just a bit worried I went to far ... maybe we have an audience that will feel ill afterwards.
I will have a good think of a good "war story " but that will include our dear moderator
Was just a bit worried I went to far ... maybe we have an audience that will feel ill afterwards.
I will have a good think of a good "war story " but that will include our dear moderator
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i weren't to worried about the audience getting ill, maybe some one rememered the person or wowan who was involved, hehehe
mmmm a war story about our moderator, sounds interesting if our moderator do not mind.......seemed like most of you were serving together, must have been alot of fun, o ja by the way Guns, u sound like the : stoutste saaf pilot know to the saaf anyways!!!
mmmm a war story about our moderator, sounds interesting if our moderator do not mind.......seemed like most of you were serving together, must have been alot of fun, o ja by the way Guns, u sound like the : stoutste saaf pilot know to the saaf anyways!!!
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The Old Days ...
Sjees swaer ... as my colleage ? and I discussed on Friday after my posting ... why I - well we - well some of us - was never fired ... I will not know.
Maybe they NEEDED us
I was in so much sh1t in my days but just kept going and the big - wigs was quite relaxed about it - I mean we did a great job in the BUSH WAR - or did we not
???
Maybe they NEEDED us
I was in so much sh1t in my days but just kept going and the big - wigs was quite relaxed about it - I mean we did a great job in the BUSH WAR - or did we not
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Gunsss,
Makes sense what you say. And I think it's a case of we not only you. At home base they could not nail you as they needed you in the bush the next week.
In the bush - I still think it was the safest place to be naughty - they needed you even more and there were more pressing matters than k@kking all over 'naughty' pilots.
Makes sense what you say. And I think it's a case of we not only you. At home base they could not nail you as they needed you in the bush the next week.
In the bush - I still think it was the safest place to be naughty
- they needed you even more and there were more pressing matters than k@kking all over 'naughty' pilots.
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Yeah Bakela, but that went for all the troopies as well, not just the pilots.
If you were in the bush you could get into all sorts of kak, but as soon as you went back to the states you had to behave like a gentleman again (well as much as a troopie was expected to
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If you were in the bush you could get into all sorts of kak, but as soon as you went back to the states you had to behave like a gentleman again (well as much as a troopie was expected to
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True...
Too true Flyboy6876. My humble apologies for forgetting the pongos.
Trouble with most aircrew was that bush and states behavioural patterns were just about similar.
Trouble with most aircrew was that bush and states behavioural patterns were just about similar.
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Swiss Apartheid
South African and other foreign pilots working for Swiss International Airlines have been given the boot! Their nationalities no longer allow them to remain in the employ of Swiss. The company is claiming that they have to let these people go, since the Swiss government has refused to renew their residence permits. The government says that is not true, and that they will renew the permits as long as the company keeps them employed. The pilots have all been given notice!
Their deadline is July 31, 2003.
Since 19% of the Swiss population live and work abroad, perhaps we shouild lobby our governments to send all Swiss people home pending the resolution of this racism!
Their deadline is July 31, 2003.
Since 19% of the Swiss population live and work abroad, perhaps we shouild lobby our governments to send all Swiss people home pending the resolution of this racism!
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126.9, Very bad news indeed. I know two pilots up there. Any idea how many are being affected?
Agree with you last statement - give 'em the boot too.
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Interesting comments about the Swiss. Times are tough and they seem to be looking out for their own. Not a bad idea. If I remember correctly it wasnt long ago their were some unemployed South Africans on the forum, whining about foreign pilots working in SA. Maybe what goes down really does come around.
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What's in a name?
I have seen some very interesting handles on PPrune. There are funny ones, traditional ones, serious (by exact name) ones and so on and so forth.
One that has me transfixed though is "---" who is a regular visitor to this forum.
Talking about clandestine!!!! I've done some searching on the site and found a "Morse Code", thus all I can come up with is that "---" must be the absolute top secret clandestine version of Morse. It's already in Code.
One that has me transfixed though is "---" who is a regular visitor to this forum.
Talking about clandestine!!!! I've done some searching on the site and found a "Morse Code", thus all I can come up with is that "---" must be the absolute top secret clandestine version of Morse. It's already in Code.
Yeh right, I can just see SAA employing a Swiss national. A few years back they wouldn't even employ an English South African, not to mention one of another race.
Still not good to see anybody lose their job, whoever they may be.Tough times for everyone, we should seek solutions rather than wish ill on others.
Still not good to see anybody lose their job, whoever they may be.Tough times for everyone, we should seek solutions rather than wish ill on others.
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Feet are up, pipe is stoked and snertjie is poured - all ready for some chat.
Reading in the news yesterday that some lawyer in SA and in the US has brought suit against Anglo American and De Beers for exploiting their workers during the apartheid era ($6.1 billion) and also against Fluor for doing the same on the Sasol project and also for quelling a riot where workers were killed ($1billion). This appears to have come about because of the T&R report.
Funny thing was I was actually working at Sasol during that riot and as far as I can recall, the only people killed were killed by rioters, so thats going to be an interesting point to fight.
However, heard on the radio that Anglo American are currently spending about $8/ounce of gold mined to assist 40000 odd workers with HIV.
Now, just wanted you folks thoughts on all of this. Seems to me that it is a publicity stunt, and I don't know if they have much chance of winning, except the holocaust thing suggests that this is a possibility. The thought crossed my mind was, how would they find all these workers to get the money to them, given that they come from all over the place and we are talking at a minimum at least 10 years ago?
Reading in the news yesterday that some lawyer in SA and in the US has brought suit against Anglo American and De Beers for exploiting their workers during the apartheid era ($6.1 billion) and also against Fluor for doing the same on the Sasol project and also for quelling a riot where workers were killed ($1billion). This appears to have come about because of the T&R report.
Funny thing was I was actually working at Sasol during that riot and as far as I can recall, the only people killed were killed by rioters, so thats going to be an interesting point to fight.
However, heard on the radio that Anglo American are currently spending about $8/ounce of gold mined to assist 40000 odd workers with HIV.
Now, just wanted you folks thoughts on all of this. Seems to me that it is a publicity stunt, and I don't know if they have much chance of winning, except the holocaust thing suggests that this is a possibility. The thought crossed my mind was, how would they find all these workers to get the money to them, given that they come from all over the place and we are talking at a minimum at least 10 years ago?
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Lawyers !!!
Flyboy ... lawyers damn lawyers trying to make a quick buck.
They go to all these "agtergeblewenes" and "make" these court cases (right or wrong).
Look at what happened in Prieska area where lawyers suddenly got envolved (right or wrong) in the Asbestos affair.
A Doctor friend of mine was sued (right or wrong) but what pi**es me off is that they where promised 25% of what they milk out of the companies envolved !
They go to all these "agtergeblewenes" and "make" these court cases (right or wrong).
Look at what happened in Prieska area where lawyers suddenly got envolved (right or wrong) in the Asbestos affair.
A Doctor friend of mine was sued (right or wrong) but what pi**es me off is that they where promised 25% of what they milk out of the companies envolved !
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Dont get me going on Lawyers......We had a bumper sticker here in the states that said "Become a Doctor, Support a Lawyer." Its seriously out of control here. So my thoughts are that they will at least get some "go away " money and of course share pennies on the dollar with those who they represent.
It seems everything done today has to be PC "Politically Correct". Even our troops in Iraq are getting hammered if they raise the American Flag. (You dont see it much, do you) as We are not there to occupy. No shots to be fired at Sadmans picture, no Iraq flags to take home.......All this PC crap. All I want to see is us getting our POWs back and getting the hell out of there. Those folks have not gotten along in a few thousand years. We certainly are not going to make a difference other than a few McDonalds restaurants. Take a look at Afghanistan today, as soon as the troops leave, it will turn to crap again.
Im sure you will be seeing more of it in Africa as time goes by.....
It seems everything done today has to be PC "Politically Correct". Even our troops in Iraq are getting hammered if they raise the American Flag. (You dont see it much, do you) as We are not there to occupy. No shots to be fired at Sadmans picture, no Iraq flags to take home.......All this PC crap. All I want to see is us getting our POWs back and getting the hell out of there. Those folks have not gotten along in a few thousand years. We certainly are not going to make a difference other than a few McDonalds restaurants. Take a look at Afghanistan today, as soon as the troops leave, it will turn to crap again.
Im sure you will be seeing more of it in Africa as time goes by.....