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by **Mrs H.** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:35 pm

You really can't argue with that can you? Can you?? I have enjoyed Dids' stories - even though i've no idea who he is - I think if I hadn't of liked them i would have kept it to myself - but each to their own i guess - i whole-heartedly support the idea that you can say what you like on banter and no-one has to read it - but i guess that cuts both ways. (BTW Pyrat it's a long time since anyone called my a bird - does it still mean the same as it used to - or is it horribly derogatory - on second thoughts - don't answer that) :cry:

by **pyrat** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:58 pm

by **Dids** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:01 pm

cheers for a good day of 'banter 'everyone!

I love you all :lol:

by **Becks** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:15 pm

Yeah, from me too! I just shaved 3 mins off my threshold run PB with all that get out there talk.

by **Lil' God'rs** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:20 pm

Keep them coming Dids - some great memories....

Chris

by **Guest** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:05 pm

I know the banter threshold has been hit but...

These stories of Didsco's might sound like the drunk old man rambling about his youth in the back of the pub, and could definitely be compared to that. But I tell you what, it is experiences like these that have kept me involved in this sport to a large degree. A lot of orienteers take the sport and themselves far too seriously. People are always harping on about how do we get people involved in orienteering, and then how do we get them to stay once they've tried it. I've gone through some real jobby times in terms of orienteering performances when I just wasn't enjoying the sport, but one of the things that keeps me involved during these times is the rich veins of banter that you hit on some of these trips, competitions and generally hanging about with orienteers. The great times at the Scottish Six Days, O-Ringen, The White Rose, Czech 5-Day...I know a lot of guys and girls who have never got onto British Orienteering Federation junior training camps, so haven't had that opportunity to meet their peers, but they still take part in the sport because they have met friends through the banter generated at these events. It's good to see Mrs. H is trying to drum up some banter at the JK next year, because that is what needs to happen if the sport is to be fun as an all out experience...for those people who don't get enough of a kick from getting up at the crack of dawn on a late winter Sunday morning, plodding round a muddy course, and then immediately hopping in their car and buggering off home again.

I think Didsco definitely does care about the direction orienteering is going in. I think he is showing that there are other experiences to be gained from just going for it with a whole load of like minded geezers, that the things that you really remember ain't always your run but the things that went on alongside it. It's like bendover said, it ain't always just about the orienteering.

Roll another phat one Didsco...

by **Joykok** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:09 pm

By me.

by BJ » Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:50 pm

class ewan

by **FatBoy** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:00 pm

Not to get involved in the whole crossfire thing but just to add personally that I can't view Dids as a rambling old man. I'll always remember him as the little kid with the big gob. I guess some things change and some stay the same.

by **ifititches** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:01 pm

I agree, flag batttle legends survive down the generations. When I was more banterous age it was the EUOC/BUOC flag stealing battle, because legend of 70s Ian Miller moved south for a year from EUOC to BUOC. Have you persuaded him to come back for EUOC reunion?

by **HOCOLITE** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:07 pm

Ask The Tullie's if you need him? I believe he's a relation

by **ifititches** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:14 pm

Need him? NO. Be delighted to see him, having failed to meet up in Atlanta in 2001? Yes! He has a lot of (very nice) things to answer for in this family.

by **gross2004** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:08 am

Ah...... Gumbie Miller........ that takes me back some years:) And EUOC and flag stealing.... does the great green & yellow EUOC flag still exists???

by **brooner** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:10 am

gross2004 wrote:Ah...... Gumbie Miller........ that takes me back some years:) And EUOC and flag stealing.... does the great green & yellow EUOC flag still exists???

green & yellow what???

by **gross2004** » Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:41 am

Flag..........

Many's the 'fights' at BUSF over various flags..... some stories to be told there but wouldn't want to get an earful from Becks so I'll keep quiet:)

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